Summary: Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo. They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly?
Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out.
Leo has a way with tools. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god.
Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first audio book in The Heroes of Olympus series.
Summary Credit: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624272-the-lost-hero
A quick rant...
Despite it's hideous inaccuracy, I like the Percy Jackson novels. They were a fun light-hearted version of traditional Greek mythology which I am obsessed with. The characters were filled with all the awkwardness of being a children's book character.
Did this book however have the same magic as the Percy Jackson novels had?
Sadly not for me anyways.
The Good: Leo. He was like the Grover from the movie version. Comic relief really. But he was amazing and I looked forward to each of his chapters with interest. Unfortunately, he seemed like a filler character and Riorden didn't use him to his full potential.
The meeting with the North Wind. That whole scene, however insignificant, was the best in the whole book.
Come to think of it, the filler scenes were the best in this whole novel.
The Bad: Roirden toying with whether or not the Roman versions of the gods were evil. I was like MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY!!! In fact the Roman gods in general annoy me. They could have been an interesting twist but he didn't expand on it any further much to my dismay. Plus the switching back and forth annoyed me.
Pipper. She annoyed me. I don't feel like explaining any further.
Jason. He annoyed me as well.
The fact that whenever the book got interesting, Riorden ran away from the subplot. I felt as if he was rushed for time and needed to get something out there.
Overall: There was so much there but the entire book felt so rushed. I will read the next book in the series though and hope that there is some sort of improvement.
Knowing Riorden, there will be.
4 out of 10
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