Summer Reading The Lost Hero

Verushka Panoff

The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

Fantasy and adventure

Jason a sixteen year old boy wakes up in a bus with no memory of who he is. On the way to a field trip to the Grand canyon, Piper a fifteen year old girl believes to be Jasons girlfriend and Leo a boy sitting next to him claims to be his best friend. As Jason does not remember anything he is vey confused. At the Grand Canyon storm spirits attack Jason, Piper and Leo. Coach Gleeson Hedge (a satyr) had been assigned to save the three teenagers from the storm spirits and risks his life for them. The three teenagers get sent to a camp for halfbloods. Jason, Piper and Leo are revealed to be children of the Greek gods. They are told about a prophecy and that the goddess Hera has been Captured. That evening at a big camp fire, in an amphitheatre, Jason gets claimed to be a son of Zeus, Leo a son of Hephasus, with the ability to create fire of nothing. Piper is revealed to be a daughter of Aphrodite with the rare gift to charmspeak. The three decide to go on a quest to save Hera before Gaia takes over the world using the gods power. At the same time Pipers dad has been captured my Encadelious. Now they have two goals that they want to accomplish but will they save them, both, in time?

My opinion on this book is very good. I learnt a lot like to always trust your friends and work as a team. At the start of the book Jason, Piper and Leo are not really friends but during their quest their friendship grows. I also found out that the roman gods are actually the greek gods with only some differences.  What I really liked about this book is that it is very action packed but at the same time has a right about of suspence, keeping the reader eager to read on. The only negative part of the book was that it is frustrating as it is a series it did not have a proper ending of the book.

I would recommend this book to people aged 11- 15, who like to read greek mythology and adventurous books. What I think is nice about the book is that the author writes the style of the book in a very humorous way, with scenes that can make us as readers laugh. I would not recommend this book to people that don’t like to read about cyclopses or other creatures from greek mythology and science fiction.