This is the third book in the Century Quartet by Pierdomenico Baccalario. The four children in the book have been chosen to discover a great secret. Every hundred years, this secret is passed on to four new keepers of the secret. In this book, they travel to Paris to discover the secret there.
The book is really interesting and engaging. This third book brings back characters from the first two books and brings in new ones. One thing I really like about this book is it has some surprising twists. I always like it when books aren't super predictable.
One thing about the book that is unique, is it's written entirely in present tense, which I still haven't decided if I like or not.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Heroes of Olympus: Son of Neptune - 2011 Book #91
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.
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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