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Struik Nature DK. Max Einstein Saves the Future Patterson, James James Patterson has teamed up with the world's most famous genius to entertain and inspire a XD Just my humble opinion though. So anyway! While Percy is trying to deal with his goddess induced amnesia, saving the world, fighting off monsters and all that usual jazz, Hazel and Frank have their own kind of problems to take care of.
Whatever you say, girl! Before that they are expected to save the world though and since both of them have some secrets they have to trust each other and to become a team first.
Their journey starts at Camp Jupiter and let me tell you this: This is no holiday! Which is part of their nature if you ask me. The Romans were always very orderly, had rules and laws to abide to, they have a military structure and they are just more I dunno: Strict, maybe? They are more cunning and scheming as well, especially Octavian. I trust that boy as far as I can throw him which is probably a few centimetres at best. XD Never trust a teddy bear killer!
Percy looked at his teammates. So this is exactly what they do. Even though their plans are more than just a little sketchy. Well, we all know Percy though and he always takes things in stride and makes the best of them. Not all of them are bad company though. Invigorated by one last hearty meal our heroes set out to save the day and what a day it turns out to be!
XD So here comes the moment when I freak out about the level of badassery this trio has attained. I mean OMG!!! They are amazing!! And Percy? Well, he reached an entirely new level of amazingness! He looked mad. The Son of Neptune might not be seen as a strong demigod but the Son of Poseidon certainly is! I mean he made the Lares shut up by just putting his finger to his lips!? Like OMG! Nico put his finger to his lips. Suddenly all the Lares went silent. Some looked alarmed, like their mouths had been glued together.
Plus I agree with Frank! She only tried to help her mother and she was a kid! What did they expect her to do?!
But war finds everyone sooner or later. The heroes are all so badass and Percy is I really like Hazel and Frank too! Full RTC soon! Stay tuned! This was a fun ride! I missed my sarcastic boy so much! View all 19 comments. Oct 27, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: own , , all-time-fav.
Does the title mean we get to hear Percy telling the story again. I'm so happy your back! And you remember Annabeth! That's my favorite demigod hero! And already fighting those monsters.
You are so much better than Jason! Hera or Gaea are being really mean. They don Does the title mean we get to hear Percy telling the story again. They don't want you to read this book. Hera because she loves Jason more than Percy, and Gaea because she's evil, and vice versa. Though Leo's hot Percy's a better amnesiac, and this is a much better book than the first one.
One reason is each of the characters get a set of four chapters instead of two. This settles the pacing down and gives us a real chance to get to know the two newbies, Frank and Hazel. Poor Jason and Piper didn't really stand a chance with the two chapter formula. In this book, Frank and Hazel really get a lot of spotlight, and they grow on you, each with a pretty cool background history Hazel especially and great character growth Frank especially.
Also, this book didn't follow some kind of obvious plot path that the first one did. The first one was like you could clearly see where Rick had wrote his plot web.
This one didn't have you seeing who was going to be the main hero where. Well, not too much anyway. Oh, and the battles where totally original, unlike "The Lost Hero", which seemed to borrow steal all it's battle ideas from the Percy Jackson series.
I'm going to wrap this up now by saying that this book has restored my faith in Rick Riordan. I was afraid that he had totally lost his mind, but, even though he seems in love with Jason now, I don't think this series will be soooo bad. It made me feel special. View all 49 comments. Sep 11, Ahmed Ejaz rated it it was amazing Shelves: , full-lengths.
Rick Riordan has completely taken control over my mind! In such a way that even if I want to read another book, I can't.
Just can't! I have been reading PJ books in row for almost two month. I am supposed to get bored. But NO! It's pretty obvious by the title we will get Percy back in this one.
When I first saw this book and didn't know a thing about greek or roman mythologies, I thought "Planet has a son?! How interesting! There he makes new friends, Frank and Hazel. During a game, war god Mars appears and assigns them a quest of freeing the Death from the clutches of a giant in Alaska, where gods can't do anything. I was very afraid of reading this book.
I thought Percy would forget Annabeth. Like Jason forgot Reyna and ended up with Piper in the previous book. Thank God that didn't happen. Percy forgot everything but Annabeth. I think Rick Riordan did that on purpose. It was a good decision. Otherwise I couldn't bear that. Both have pretty sad background and Frank is sooooooooooooooo cute. I liked both of them. Even though she is not awoken. I wonder what will happen if she will finally awake.
Mark of Athena, I am coming!!!! September 11, View all 30 comments. Why tempt fate? Reyna is such a strong female leader. I like her. Hazel is good of course, but she's probably my least favourite among the 7 so it remains 4, while the first earned 5 stars. Dec 07, Morgan F rated it really liked it Shelves: series , adventure , good-sized , fantasy , , fiction , i-haz-powers , myths-retellings , multiple , own.
View all 33 comments. The horse whinnied angrily. View all 23 comments. Finished doing my re-read of this! I'm trying to go through the whole series before the last book comes out in the fall. I'll write a new review at some point. Old review under spoiler below. Read them all. Especially because I might spoil som Finished doing my re-read of this! Especially because I might spoil some things as I rant about this book.
And also because they're all amazing. Rick Riordan, I worship you. Yes, even though these books are most likely aimed at year-old boys and I'm an year-old girl. I don't care. They're amazing.
So yeah! I am dying to read Son of Neptune. I want him back. When he wasn't in the first book at all, I threw it across the room. But don't get me wrong, I loved it. Well, I haven't read this yet so there's not much to say review-wise. I can only judge it by the cover and by the Chapter One excerpt which is floating around on the internet.
Just Google "son of neptune first chapter" and you'll find it. Well duh, the book is called Son of Neptune. So he has to be in it. He looks like a monkey man. Oh well I'll forgive. Also, why does he have a giant gold bird? And why is he in Antarctica? This is just killing me, man.
And he doesn't remember anything! This is terrible. You make me laugh. I love you. AHHHH that excerpt was not long enough. I object.
Well, that's all I've got to say for now. You'll have to wait until October for the rest. Okay, that's an exaggeration, I suppose. And no, this book isn't perfect. But it made me really, really, really happy. So that's enough for me. Basically, we get Percy back. In this book, he has lost his memory and then stumbles upon a camp similar to Camp Half-Blood, only dedicated to the Roman gods instead of the Greek gods.
At this camp, he soon befriends Frank and Hazel——two lovely additions to the cast of characters——who are both kids with pretty screwed up lives. I won't spoil anything, but let's just say they have both lost their mortal mothers and both have immortal fathers and both have terrible curses.
They also obviously like each other but don't want to admit it; nor do they want to tell each other about their curses. The trio ends up going on a quest to rescue Death, and … awesomeness ensues.
First and foremost, I want to say that I was infinitely happy to have Percy come back into the story again. Now, I know what we were all nervous about. This is going to involve spoilers for The Lost Hero. So if you haven't read it, just go away. I was one of them. If that was the case, I would have been seriously pissed off. Seeing as Jason also lost his memory and mostly forgot both his girlfriends … It seemed like a reasonable fear. However, on page 4 of Son of Neptune : The city had some connection to Annabeth——the only person he could remember from his past.
I can assure you, ye fellow rabid Percabeth fans … Rick Riordan is smart enough to realize he shouldn't mess with that. Percy remembers Annabeth well enough that he knows not to go around snogging other hot girls.
I don't think I've ever used the word "snogging" before. But anyway, you get the point. There was nothing to worry about there. But anyway, back to Percy in general. It is just fabulous to have him back again. It was interesting to see him in this new situation where he's the expert on everything rather than being the clueless one like he was at the beginning of The Lightning Thief.
It's cool with me. As for the new characters, they're awesome. Frank and Hazel are very well-developed and so is their relationship. They have unique and intriguing backstories. Plus they make an adorable couple. It seems like Rick Riordan always pairs up characters who are minorities … That is, he creates biracial couples, but it's never a white person and a minority together.
I mean, I'm happy that his characters come from all different kinds of backgrounds, and that he's not too "in your face" about it like a lot of authors are.
But I don't know, I just find it a bit weird. But, even with the darker elements thrown in, the usual humor is still there. See quotes below. Rick Riordan's humorous tone never fails to make me grin my head off. So anyway, despite my love for this book … now comes the slightly more critical part.
My few issues with this book: A It's kind of obvious that the whole Roman thing didn't occur to Rick Riordan until after he'd written the Percy Jackson series. And as much as he tries to explain it, it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Also, I still have trouble understanding how the Greek gods are also Roman gods … Like, they're the same … but they're not. I don't get it. So do they have multiple personality disorder or something?
B I think Riordan might have messed up the timeline a bit. When I was reading The Lost Hero I was under the impression that a couple of years had gone by——although maybe I made this up entirely. I seem to recall at the beginning of The Lost Hero, when Jason met Annabeth, he observed that she appeared to be a couple of years older than him——and he was Since Annabeth and Percy were both 16 at the end of the first series, I assumed this meant that they were like 18 or so now.
But then at the beginning of Son of Neptune Percy mentions that he's still 16 … and at the end of the book we're told that only two months have gone by. I'm confused too. I guess Annabeth is just older-looking than she really is? C Okay, this one is a spoiler. At first I thought Nico had lost his memory, too. But then I was like, "Wait? He doesn't? Like at one point in this book, there's a part where a train is described as going "toppling" off the tracks … And then Riordan tells us that no one on the train was injured one bit.
I don't understand why he can't just kill off a few people for the sake of making it seem more realistic. I mean, he didn't have a problem with killing off lots of random campers in the fifth Percy Jackson book. It would just be like, "During the battle, several kids had died. All right, that's pretty much all the major criticisms I have. Since he didn't have a past, it was hard to like him as a character.
He was just like, "I'm so kickass and I don't know why! Over all, I thought this book is wonderful. So, my friend and my sisters decided to go. And we get there … to find out we have to wait in a line that looked like this: Sorry, my iPod takes shitty photos, but I think you get the basic idea.
Also, that's not really a single line. It's a line that snakes around about four or five times——maybe more. And that's just the line behind the bookstore. Once you got to the front of the store you had to wait in THIS line: Long story short, there were 2, people in that line. And we had to wait in that line for approximately two and a half hours. After Polybotes and his army leaves, they make their way to the R. L where they meet the godess Iris. Frank gets attacked by some snakes but he uses the spear Mars gave him to summon Gray which defeats the snakes for him.
When traveling through Portland, Oregon, they encounter Ella the harpy. She is intelligent, but Phineas , also a son of Neptune, wants to keep her captive. Percy makes a deal with Phineas, betting on two vials of Gorgon Blood. One vial heals a person and the other one is fatal. Percy suggests they each take one and that if Phineas wins, the Gorgon Blood will give him his sight back, and if Percy wins, Phineas will grant them with information on where Thanatos is being held captive, by writing the place on a piece of paper.
Phineas, thinking Gaea will protect him, accepts the gamble. Phineas eventually loses and crumbles into dust. The demigods take Ella with them and Hazel realizes that Ella may have read, and memorized, the Sibylline Books , books of prophecy about Rome. On the boat ride to Seattle, Frank and Hazel share a flashback through Hazel's life.
It is revealed that she gave up her spot in Elysium to save her mother from the Fields of Punishment. Frank gives Hazel his life stick to protect it. When they wake, they are in Seattle. They head to Amazon headquarters and ask the receptionist, Kinzie, to speak with Hylla. Percy and Frank are immediately knocked over, and the trio is disarmed.
They are taken to Hylla, through a gigantic warehouse that is for Amazon. When they see Hylla, she recognizes Percy from their time on Circe 's island, and blames him for her and Reyna 's imprisonment by Blackbeard. She almost kills him until Hazel tells her they were sent by Reyna. Hylla has Hazel stay to talk while Frank and Percy are taken to jail cells. Hylla reveals her difficult "situation" where Otrera has been brought back by Gaea and plans to fight Hylla to the death for the title of queen of the Amazons.
Because Otrera will come back each time she dies because Thanatos is in chains, Hylla's chances are slim. Hazel is about to give up when Arion , the immortal horse that Hazel met briefly before her death in , starts to get agitated in his cage. Hazel feeds him a gold nugget, and Hylla realizes she may be the one to tame him. Hylla gives Hazel a rough plan to escape, and Hazel explodes a few tons of jewelry boxes to get to Percy and Frank, sets Arion free, and he pulls them to Vancouver.
The trio visits Grandma Zhang's home, which has been circled by Laistrygonian giants who believe that if they eat Frank, they will inherit his gifts. Frank uses his spear, a gift from Mars, to summon Gray , a skeleton warrior, who kills a group of the giants to allow Frank and his friends to sneak into his Grandma's house. There Mars is waiting for Frank so he can speak to him privately, to talk to him about his family gift and his duty.
Mars waves his hand and Frank falls asleep, to be woken by his grandmother. The giants are waiting outside his house, while Percy blows up their explosive cannonballs with the garden hose. Frank hears Ella recite a prophecy that seems to relate to their quest, but she does not finish it as the paper was burnt. Percy blows up the garden irrigation system, as they drive out of Grandma Zhang's burning house.
Frank thinks he sees a large black speck, a buzzard, flying from the second story window, which he thinks could be his grandma. Using Frank's instructions from his grandmother, they find the plane owned by a legacy of Rome, who takes them to Alaska - the land beyond the gods.
Ella refuses to go on the plane, so the trio leave her in the woods and Percy asks Tyson and Mrs. O'Leary in a dream, to go and find her. They land in Anchorage and take a train to Seward, which is close to the Hubbard Glacier. Then the train is attacked by gryphons and they hide under a Hyperborean giant. They continue to walk to Seward, but Percy gets trapped in the boggy soil, muskeg, Hazel jumps in to try and save him, but Gaea sends Hazel a vision of what life could have been like if she had not died, and the news that Nico had been captured.
They rest at Hazel's old house in Seward, and Hazel goes out to find a way to travel to the Hubbard Glacier, but she had miscalculated and it was further away then she had previously thought. Suddenly, they are attacked by more gryphons, but before they can fight them off, Hazel hears Arion, who allows them to get on his back to go to the Hubbard Glacier. They reach Hubbard Glacier and find Thanatos. His chains cannot be broken unless melted by the fire of life Frank's stick.
Hazel attacks Alcyoneus , while Percy defends Frank from around a hundred shades. Meanwhile, Frank uses his stick to melt Thanatos' chains four chains wrapped around his limbs. Percy summons a mini-hurricane while attacking the shades and manages to retrieve the golden eagle , the pride of the Twelfth Legion. Frank eventually frees Thanatos, and is torn between helping Percy or Hazel. Percy tells him to help Hazel, assuring him that he will be okay. Frank then realizes his special gift, that he can literally shape-shift into anything.
He transforms first into an eagle and then into a grizzly bear and knocks the giant unconscious. Hazel and Frank suddenly realize Percy's difficult situation as he grows more tired and can no longer keep his hurricane formed as the ghosts keep attacking him.
Percy thrusts Riptide into the ground making the ice around him start breaking. The icy Roman camp, shades, and Percy Jackson fall over the edge of the glacier into the void as Frank and Hazel watch.
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