Ratings for Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

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I recent finished reading the newest book in the Heroes of Olympus series, "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan.  While the story is different enough to enjoy the book as your first Heroes of Olympus book, to get the best value out of the book, it really needs to be read with the rest of the series.  I don't think reading the entire Percy Jackson series is necessary, but Book One in this series is almost a must.

For a brief summary of the beginning plot (I will not try to give too many spoilers!), Percy Jackson has lost his memory and ends up stranded and running from gorgons. He soon finds Camp Jupiter, a Roman camp, and meets Frank and Hazel. Camp Jupiter is in the process of searching for their praetor, Jason Grace. Percy, Frank, and Hazel are tasked with defeating a fearsome giant, and retrieve the Golden Eagle for Camp Jupiter. The adventure takes the crew all over the place, including a first time visit to Alaska.

Overall, this book was generally pretty good.   Rick Riordan did a good job of integrating his old characters into a new book without just retelling the exact same story twice.  Having already read 5 books in the Percy Jackson series and the first book in this series, it was really a no-brainer that I would read this book too.  It was worth it, and now I am probably stuck reading the third, fourth, fifth, and seventy-ninth book in this series.

If I could change anything about the book, it would be that none of the 3 demigods would have awesome powers.  Was there a demigod strike I wasn't aware of or did the demigods demanded too much money from Riordan to be in this book.  Demigods can be rather demanding like that... Like all of Riordan books, he keeps the reader hooked all the way throughout.  So if you actually have something fun to do during the weekend, don't start this book on Friday because you won't get it done (and blowing a whole weekend just reading this book).

Finally, I also wanted to mention one of the stronger points was how well the author took the Greek Camp Half-Blood and mix it with the Roman Camp Jupiter, and vice versa.  It gives just a perfect mixture of old and new to keep things fresh.  So overall, my grade on this book is 3π/10 (9.42/10 for those who aren't math-inclined).

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