What’s the book about?
From #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a new adventure featuring two of the most popular characters from the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
It’s been three months since demigod boyfriends Nico di Angelo and Will Solace returned from Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a single quest for them in all that time. So, when Nico’s half sister Hazel asks them to come to Camp Jupiter to help with an ‘issue’, Nico shadow-jumps at the chance to do something.
What Hazel didn’t tell the boys is that she’s providing a haven for a group of monsters who’ve escaped the Underworld! Apparently, during Nico and Will’s trip to the Underworld, they showed the monsters that they don’t have to be evil – that the monsters have options.
But then the monsters start disappearing from the camp and it’s clear a dark force is at work – and Nico, Will and Hazel are shocked to find that they’re connected to it …
Recommended for:
Ages 9+
Three reasons to read it:
- If you’ve ever wanted more of Nico di Angelo, the brooding son of Hades, and Will Solace, the sunshine-powered son of Apollo, this book delivers. This new adventure gives fans a closer look at their relationship, their powers, and how they balance light and darkness in more ways than one.
- Hazel, Nico’s half sister, is secretly giving shelter to monsters who want to live peacefully. Yes, monsters with feelings. This twist flips the usual monster-hunting story on its head and shows that even the scariest creatures might deserve a second chance. It also raises big questions about good, evil, and everything in between.
- Riordan is the creator of the Percy Jackson universe, and Oshiro is known for emotionally rich, inclusive fantasy. Together, they’ve created a story that is not just epic and action-packed but also full of depth, humour, and heart. Their combined voices bring out the best in the story’s beloved characters.
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About the author:
Rick Riordan is a teacher and a writer, and has won many awards for his mystery novels for adults. He says that the idea for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief first came to him while he was teaching Greek mythology at middle school in San Francisco. But rumour has it that Camp Half Blood actually exists, and Rick spends his summers there recording the adventures of young demigods. Some believe that, to avoid a mass panic among the mortal population, he was forced to swear on the River Styx to present Percy Jackson’s story as fiction. Rick lives in Texas (apart from his summers on Half Blood Hill) with his wife and two sons.
Mark Oshiro (they/them) is the author of the young adult books Anger Is a Gift, winner of the 2019 Schneider Family Book Award, and Each of Us A Desert, an NPR Best Book of 2020. Their middle grade books include The Insiders, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and You Only Live Once, David Bravo. Mark also contributed a short story to the Star Wars anthology Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View. Mark is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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