And the book is big enough to contain more than seven half-bloods, as another plot follows Reyna and Nico trying to return the Athena Parthenos statue to Camp Half-Blood before an all-out war between the Greeks and the Romans goes into full swing. In The Blood of Olympus, we follow those seven half-bloods-Jason, Piper, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Percy, and Annabeth-on a quest to stop the resurrection of Gaea, the earth mother. The new series started with The Lost Hero (that lost hero being Percy Jackson), and ends with a bang in this here fifth book, which finally wraps up the prophecy that started it all (there's always a prophecy, isn't there?):Īnd foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. But never one to disappoint, Rick Riordan debuted a new series, The Heroes of Olympus, in 2010. After the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series concluded with The Last Olympian in 2009, it seemed like we'd seen the last of our buddy Percy. Okay, maybe Ovid and Homer didn't quite imagine Rick Riordan's epic Heroes of Olympus series back in a time before books even existed…but readers have been waiting for The Blood of Olympus (2014) ever since Percy Jackson first hit the scene in The Lightning Thief in 2005. Ever since Ovid sat down to chisel the origins of the gods in The Metamorphoses and Homer sang out the adventure of the ultimate heroes in The Iliad, Roman and Greek mythologies have been barreling forward to this epic conclusion:Ī bunch of half-god teenagers saving the world.
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