How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus’s favor. But Apollo has many enemies—gods, … monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.
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IT IS THE BEST I WANT IT SO BAD
The trials of Apollo is a remarkable book series, incorporating wonderful characters with diverse personalities and backgrounds. It is a must read and really brings out all kinds of emotions for the characters.
Although it might be a little scary it’s wonderful
I love this book I would re-read over and over again!
I can realt to the main character in the book!
Really good thing to read on your freetime!
loved it
So interesting!!!
Rick Riordan is one of a few authors who managed to take stories as old as the human race is, and turned them into new engaging tales that capture the spirit of the past combined with the views of our modern world.
His new series the trials of Apollo is unique in all his writings, and that is because even though it is about a group of young adults like all of his other books, the main character is actually the ancient Greek god, Apollo.
This very book plays the idea of the displaced ancient god to perfection and makes him even more human than most characters in other books about the human condition.
Highly recommended.
Rick Riordan does an amazing job taking on the challenge of making one of the most self-absorbed, egotistical heroes I’ve ever read into someone the reader actually wants to root for. Gosh, Apollo sincerely deserves his comeuppance at the beginning. In the past Percy Jackson books he’s been one annoying god with a hyper-inflated view of his own poetic ability, not to mention superhuman attractiveness. Yet, we very quickly begin to feel that maybe, just maybe, there’s a piece of redeemable goodness in this cast-down-to-earth teenager with the 4,000 year memory (give or take a few centuries). Of course, it helps that the odds are so stacked against him and, in true Greek fashion, sometimes allies can be worse threats than enemies.
First in it’s series and already amazing
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The Hidden Oracle, book 1 of Rick Riordan’s The Trials Of Apollo series, offers a lot of off-handed one liners (set off with parenthesis) and a handful of references to previous romantic relationships from the main character which I found to be more of a nuisance than helpful to telling the story. Great storyline however the delivery was not so great to me.
This book is amazing and it will always be. The author (Rick Riordan) created this book with talent and passion. I think (In my opinion) that starting of with a book including a series is a great start to reading. When I started reading this book,I couldn’t stop reading this book and read it day and night.
After making his father Zeus super mad, Apollo gets punished by being sent down to Earth as a human teenage boy. And not a tough, hot teenage boy, but an average, run-of-the-mill teenage boy with―horror of horrors!―acne. Now the arrogant former god must figure out how to win back his father’s favor while fending off the numerous enemies he made as a god, enemies that are all too happy to see the god in his puny human form. Realizing, much to his disdain, that he needs help, Apollo sets off for the one place he knows he has friends and family―Camp Half Blood.
What I liked: Apollo is definitely my favorite of Riordan’s gods. His vanity and egotism, even now as a puny human, is hilarious and caused me to laugh out loud multiple times. I loved the return of some of the previous characters (like Percy Jackson) from other series, as well as the new characters introduced in this one.
What I didn’t like: not much. It was a bit long, but I never felt like I wanted the book to end.
A fun romp through mythology and history.
5 out of 5 stars
This book gives a whole different view about the Gods of Olympus and their daily lives
even knowing im not done with this book i still had to talk about it my favorite part about this book is its this century the author wrote the way teens talk act all of that its like he turned into a teen while he was writing it and got to love peaches