How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father, Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy.
Without his godly powers, the 4000-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus’ favor. But Apollo has many enemies: gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed.
Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go: an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. [x]
HOLD ONTO YOUR SEATS, GUYS. HUGE, BREAKING NEWS!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Well, Rick did say on his social media accounts that he would be revealing some future plans at tonight’s Norse-American Tour stop in Boston. We were just not mentally prepared for them to be this amazing!
Thanks to Tumblr user @griefisafreighttrain, we now have video of Riordan announcing his upcoming project The Trials of Apollo, which will apparently be a one-off book that will bring us back to Camp Half-Blood with some of the characters from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series. We’ll finally know what our favorite demigods got up to after the end of the war! And of course, the added presence of Apollo only makes things 300% more awesome. You can hear the audience in Boston go wild at the announcement.
Riordan also said the chapter titles will be in haiku (we would not expect anything less), and that a preview of it will be released next year alongside a brand new Percy Jackson/Kane Chronicles crossover full-length novel.
I don’t know about you guys, but MY MIND IS BLOWN. I did not know I needed this until I heard it come out of Rick’s mouth. (Actually, judging by the amount of fanfiction I’ve read since BoO came out– yes, yes I did). What do you think of this news? Are you excited about this as we are?! Which characters and plot points would you like to see in this book? Tell us all your hopes and speculations in a comment!
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