OH! And Apollo was FANTASTIC! He made me laugh out loud every two paragraphs! Humor on point! I really loved this book. NOOOOOO OMG!!! That final chapter killed me and brought me to life at the same time!!! Apollo's team in this trials will be THE DREAM TEAM! I'm so excited to read the adventures of these three!!!Īlso, everytime Percy appeared I couldn't stop SMILING. It warmed my heart that my children had the right priorities: their skills, their images, their views on YouTube.īlog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube | Store I'm still not 100% sure I would want to read any more books that focus on teenage demigods (we've kind of been there and done that, in my opinion), but I will definitely see Apollo's story through to the end. This, for me, stood out amid a sea of similar stories and characters. You don't have to have read the other books to understand and enjoy this one, but it does contain spoilers for the main series and the characters.

On that note, many familiar characters come in and out of this book. And yet, there is something undeniably lovable about him too. There's a nice bit of schadenfreude to be had when this self-obsessed god finally gets what he deserves and has to rely on Percy Jackson for help. Pure entertainment.Īpollo is the Gilderoy Lockhart of this world and it is hilarious. But this mostly stood out to me as being the funniest book Riordan has written and that's really saying something, given that all his books are defined by his trademark snarky humour. You don't get to be an old god like Apollo without making a LOT of enemies. Of course, there's a whole lot of godly drama going on too. Is anything sadder than the sound of a god hitting a pile of garbage bags? Imagine his horror when he discovers that not only is he human, but he also has acne and flab. Truly, this book is so refreshing! Apollo doesn't even pretend he's a do-gooder in fact, it's clear from the beginning that he's out for himself and views humans as 'meat sacks'.

His voice, however, not to mention his snark and humour, are that of a selfish, narcissistic, hilarious asshole. But he's actually an age-old immortal who has been cast out of Olympus by Zeus and turned into a regular human teenager. Apollo stands out because he is not a teenage boy. Magnus Chase could just as easily have been Percy Jackson.īUT then RR had to throw Apollo into the mix. The conflicts were similar and the teen 'voices' had begun to blend into one. to take a step back from these books about Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods. I was actually disappointed with his last one - The Sword of Summer - and I began to question in my review if it was finally time for Mr. Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan