The Lost Hero

THE LOST HERO

By: Rick Riordan

FIRST SENTENCE

“Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.”

SUMMARY
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Jason has a problem.  He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl.  Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.”  What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret.  Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger.  Now her boyfriend doesn’t even recognize her, and when a freak storm and a strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood.  What is going on?

Leo has a way with tools.  His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them.  Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls.  What’s troubling him is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and the camper’s gone missing.  Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all- including Leo- related to a god.

REVIEW

Guess what?  There’s a new series out that’s set in Camp Half-Blood.  Cool.  But get this, it has a new trio of main characters.  Are you kidding me!?!?  There’s a Roman God spin on things too.  SERIOUSLY?  And now for the best part.  What’s that?  It’s every bit as good as the Percy Jackson series.  BRING IT!

Let’s take a look at the new main characters.  Everything about Jason is mysterious because he has lost his memory.  He is unsure of himself and this makes him real and likeable.  Piper is going through some struggles because her father is missing and her boyfriend doesn’t remember her.  She longs for companionship.  Leo brings the funny!  He’s a genius when it comes to mechanical things, but his endearing quality is his humor.  Leo was my favorite character.

The point-of-view is set up so that each character gets two chapters in a row.  It works because I got to know each character in depth, but I wasn’t limited to just one point-of-view.

Action – check.  Satyrs – yep.  Monsters you have never even dreamed of – plenty.  Teenage crushes – indeed.  Mythology – yes.  Cliffhanger ending – OH MY GOSH!

The Lost Hero is  a book I will want to read again (and probably again again).  It can stand up to any comparisons to Percy Jackson and come out equal (or even better).

RATING

5        Plot

5        Characters

5        Attention Grabbing

3        Girlie Meter

5        Ending

23      TOTAL

5        STARS