I’m in the middle of reading The Red Pyramid, the hot-off-the-press series starter of Rick Riordan’s follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles. I’m a fan of Riordan’s simple yet insanely fun and suspenseful writing in Percy Jackson, and reading through the first installment of his new series, I must say the guy still has it in spades. After applying his modern and often humorous twists to various Greek myths and legends in Percy Jackson, Riordan now has set his sights on the relatively less familiar tales of Egyptian gods and godesses, taking them for a nice spin as his new protagonists, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, race against time to defeat Set, the most nefarious of all gods of Ancient Egypt.  Apparently, Riordan is one crazy children’s book author, as he is set to kick off another series in October. This time he shall be returning to the Percy Jackson universe with The Heroes of Olympus, a spin-off series whose first book, The Lost Hero, introduces a new power trio of heroes to match that of Percy, Grover, and Annabeth in the original series. As revealed through a sneak peek of the first two chapters of The Lost Hero, which you can read here after entering the recently disclosed password, newhero, and whose cover art has also been unveiled just a few hours ago, the eponymous lost hero turns out to be none other than Percy himself. Annabeth, now explicitly named as his girlfriend, has embarked on a quest with a new character named Butch to locate Percy. She is told, presumably by the Oracle of Delphi, that a certain one-shoed person holds the answer to their search-and-rescue operation. Enter Jason (Get it? Jason the one-shoed hero from the legend of the Argonauts?), a teenager who we first meet waking up in a bus full of juvenile delinquents on a field trip, including his girlfriend, Piper, and his best friend, Leo (Charmed, much?). Headed by the pint-sized Coach Hedge, they arrive at the Grand Canyon, whereupon dark clouds suddenly appear, storm spirits wreak havoc, a satyr abandons his disguise, and Jason, Piper, and Leo discover the truth: they are, in fact, demigods.  It’s an exciting cold open for what is sure to be another exciting fantasy-adventure series from one of the masters of classic cliffhangers, if you ask me.

I’m in the middle of reading The Red Pyramid, the hot-off-the-press series starter of Rick Riordan’s follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles. I’m a fan of Riordan’s simple yet insanely fun and suspenseful writing in Percy Jackson, and reading through the first installment of his new series, I must say the guy still has it in spades. After applying his modern and often humorous twists to various Greek myths and legends in Percy Jackson, Riordan now has set his sights on the relatively less familiar tales of Egyptian gods and godesses, taking them for a nice spin as his new protagonists, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, race against time to defeat Set, the most nefarious of all gods of Ancient Egypt. 

Apparently, Riordan is one crazy children’s book author, as he is set to kick off another series in October. This time he shall be returning to the Percy Jackson universe with The Heroes of Olympus, a spin-off series whose first book, The Lost Hero, introduces a new power trio of heroes to match that of Percy, Grover, and Annabeth in the original series.

As revealed through a sneak peek of the first two chapters of The Lost Hero, which you can read here after entering the recently disclosed password, newhero, and whose cover art has also been unveiled just a few hours ago, the eponymous lost hero turns out to be none other than Percy himself. Annabeth, now explicitly named as his girlfriend, has embarked on a quest with a new character named Butch to locate Percy. She is told, presumably by the Oracle of Delphi, that a certain one-shoed person holds the answer to their search-and-rescue operation. Enter Jason (Get it? Jason the one-shoed hero from the legend of the Argonauts?), a teenager who we first meet waking up in a bus full of juvenile delinquents on a field trip, including his girlfriend, Piper, and his best friend, Leo (Charmed, much?). Headed by the pint-sized Coach Hedge, they arrive at the Grand Canyon, whereupon dark clouds suddenly appear, storm spirits wreak havoc, a satyr abandons his disguise, and Jason, Piper, and Leo discover the truth: they are, in fact, demigods. 

It’s an exciting cold open for what is sure to be another exciting fantasy-adventure series from one of the masters of classic cliffhangers, if you ask me.

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  1. bumblewhore said: Hey Aldrin, where did you get your copy of the Red Pyramid? I’ve been looking for it, but I haven’t seen it at the bookstores I go to.:(
  2. scarlet-peregrine reblogged this from aldrin and added:
    comes out! And I hope
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