Likewise, Apollo’s narration can be kind of cringe-y as he makes absurd comments, comparisons, and references. Since 2014, my tastes have changed a lot and I read a lot of more serious books, but I still found The Hidden Oracle to be an enjoyable read after I got past the less mature sense of humor. A lot of the jokes seemed very MG to me, which I should have expected because the last time I read a Riordan book was in 2014 when the last Heroes of Olympus novel came out. There are haikus at the beginning of the chapter that are incredibly silly as they make fun of Apollo’s horrible poetry skills (despite being the god of poetry).
Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go… an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.Īt the beginning this novel was full of eye-rolls for me, but it somehow slowly grew on me like every other Riordan book. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus’s favour.īut Apollo has many enemies-gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed.
Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. The only way he can fix things is at Camp Half-Blood, but his enemies are large and Apollo can’t do everything alone (as much as he’d like to do so).Īfter angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. But now he must regain Zeus’ favor to go back to Olympus.Īlong the way, he meets mini-sized street-demigod Meg and starts to uncover a plot far larger than a few evil misdeeds.
He is cast down from Olympus and is stuck in mortal form as a teenage boy in New York. The Hidden Oracle, the first of Riordan’s new spinoff series, The Hidden Oracle, involves Apollo, the god of music, healing, and archery, and his fall from grace (or rather, Olympus).
Another year, another growing pile of Rick Riordan books I need to read.
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