The Lost Hero by
Rick Riordan, 557 pages
The Lost Hero
continues where the Percy Jackson and the Olympian series left off. It keeps
some of the same heroes from the previous series, but also introduces some new
fresh faces. The three main ones being Piper, the daughter of Aphrodite, Leo,
the son of Hephaestus, and Jason, son of Zeus or more accurately son of
Jupiter. The Lost Hero and The Heroes
of Olympus series focuses on both the Greek and Roman gods.
While
the two cultures have most of the same gods, they have some differences. The Lost Hero explores the two different
personas and explains why the gods are seen differently in each culture. I am
not as fluent in my Roman mythology so at times the crossovers were hard to
follow. There are also some new titans, minor gods and giants that we haven’t
met yet and to wrap it all up a giant bronze dragon…
The book is filled with excitement and action
but it almost feels like Riordan is trying to incorporate too much mythology at
once. That overload takes away from the overall story slightly but still worth
the read, if you enjoyed his previous series.
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