This is the second book in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus Series, which is a follow-up series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the first book, the reader meets Jason, Leo, and Piper at Camp Half-Blood where Percy Jackson has gone missing. There is talk about the Great Prophecy that involves seven demi-gods, and talk of another camp.
In this second book, the reader finds that Percy Jackson has lost his memory and stumbles across this other camp, the Roman camp for demi-gods. While some things are similar and seem familiar to him, other things seem foreign, and sometimes, even wrong. Percy Jackson is sent out on a quest with his new friends from the camp: Hazel and Frank, who both have secrets they are keeping from everyone.
On their quest, they have only days to travel to The Land Beyond the Gods and free Death from the hands of an evil giant that is said to be invincible in his homeland, which, of course, is where he is.
The book is written in the same free-flowing manner as his other books. The book has fun characters, interesting characters that react to things and to each other in very realistic ways. Since they are at a Roman camp, the reader learns a lot about Roman mythology and some history in the process of reading this book.
While the book ties up a lot of strings, there is enough that's left unanswered or unknown that makes the reader, or at least me, anxious to read the next book. Unfortunately, the third book, The Mark of Athena doesn't come out until Fall of 2012.
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