The Son of Neptune

  In this blog entry, I am going to write about a book I read earlier this school year,  The Son of Neptune.  The Son of Neptune is the second book in the Lost Heroes series.  The book's main protagonist is Percy Jackson who was the main protaganist of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians.  In the beginning of the book, Percy goes to Camp Jupiter, a roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood in the previous books, after fighting the Gorgan sisters and having amnesia.  At Camp Jupiter, Percy meets Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque.  Frank is a son of Mars, and Hazel is the daughter of Pluto.  After joining the camp, Percy joins the Fifth cohort which is unlucky due to the loss of a golden eagle statue.  At Camp Jupiter, they are then given a quest to free Thantos, the guardian of the doors of death.  Through out the book,  Rick Riordan, the book's author, does a great job at developing his characters and making them very connectable.  The new world that is introduced ties in well with his previous books and develops the protagonist in The Lost Hero even more.  The book's first person narration with multiple narrators makes the book very suspenseful and a great page turner.  I do wish the book used more advanced vocabulary.  Overall,  I loved this book and can not wait for the next book in the Lost Hero series, The Mark of Athena.