Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune

Neptune's son Rick Riordan continues its popular heroes of Saga Olympus. Neptune has a brilliant job of picking up where the first book in the series, the hero lost to relax. He moves deftly introducing the forward series of drawing new lines, even if it answers some questions that fans of the lost hero took about a year now.

Of course, the big issue that gets answered in this book is: What happened to Percy Jackson? In The Lost Hero, we learned that he was lost, but received only vague hints of what might happen. Son of Neptune, Percy returns to one of the main characters. At the beginning of the novel are stripped of his memories Percy Jackson and the hunt for two gorgons. Take on a Juno, in the form of an old and she gives him the option. You can return to his memoirs, and save the gods by going to the Half-Blood Roman camp or stay where he is and be sure of its safety.

Percy's decision to go to a Roman camp will be the starting point for the Roman Gods and Semi-start a new business. Roman camp, where Percy lands, is an experience in itself. Full of Lares (the gods of the house), and divided the Roman legions of the same military beautifully brings readers to aspects of Roman culture and the differences between the Greek and Roman mythology.

At the Roman camp, Riordan introduces us to a new demigods. While the ability Riordan at a great character development does not shine so bright as it did in The Lost Hero, I still really enjoyed the new heroes, who are the heart of the Son of Neptune. The most striking of these is Hazel, daughter of Pluto. Hazel has inherited a lot of Pluto, so that he can do precious metals and stones, in the spring of the country, but the people who are, or accept them, are inevitably damned. Another key player is Frank Zhang, the son of Mars, who is a talented archery and carry around a special quiver with arrows. Three of them soon find themselves sent to Mars in search of himself. Thanatos, the guardian of the underworld, was in prison. We learned that the absence of Thanatos is what needs to be reformed when the monsters when they are slaughtered.

March demigods of Alaska sends three free Thanatos and avoid Gea to release more monsters in the world.

The son of Neptune takes almost all the major debates that began in the unsung hero. We have more guidance on the meaning of the prophecy of the seven half-blood. We also learn more about Gaia plots to destroy the gods and how mestizos are supposed to stop. As always, Riordan shows an incredible talent for expressing adolescent language and emotion. I am an adult reader, but I'm always impressed by how the ability to create very real characters Riordan teens remember how you felt an anxiety that fills in adolescents. The diversity of the characters in this series remains one of its strengths. Their ethnicities and backgrounds and related characters are believable way that many other young adult novels do not.

Unlike the Percy Jackson series, which was written entirely in first person, the Son of Neptune continues to a third-person narrative that uses Riordan's first novel, Heroes of Olympus series. Here it moves back and forth prospects Percy, Frank and Hazel. This style seems more mature in many ways, and I admire how Riordan is used for readers to invest all the key characters.