The Lost Hero

By Rick Riordan

Genre: Mythology

The Author: Rick Riordan attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio. He has a wife and two sons, Haley and Patrick. He Likes to read swim and spend time with his family in his spare time. He likes all his books for different reasons. He has a dog and two black cats. The first book he read for fun was the Lord of the Ring. He liked greek and norse mythology books too. In high school he read mostly fantasy and science fiction. The first story he submitted for publication was when he was 13. It wasn’t published. His first published works were two short stories in the UTSA literary magazine. When he was in college, He worked for three years as the music director at a summer camp, Camp Capers. This is where he got the idea for Camp Half-Blood. His first full-time job was teaching middle school in New Braunfels, Texas. In 2011 He won the author of the year award at the children's choice book awards.

The Story: In "The Lost Hero" theres a boy named jason and he wakes up on a bus not knowing where he is. A girl named piper who is supposedly his girlfriend is sitting next to him. Anyways he doesn't know who these people are and they arrive at a museum. Their supposed teacher is a satyr who is suppose to protect demi-gods. Jason, Piper, and jason supposed best friend Leo are all demi-gods. Thats when the adventure begins. When they arrive at a camp called camp half- blood, a half man half horse comes up to the three demi-gods and talks. As they talk the half man half horse tells them that theres this thing called the mist that is making them think jason is piper and leos friend. So they go on a journey to try and find out who he is and as they move along they end up finding out they might have to save the world. Leo finds out he is a son of hephestus. He then finds out there is a mechanical dragon in the woods near camp half blood. So he fixes it up and thats what the three characters use to travel. This is as much as i can tell you without ruining the story.

Disney- Hyperion 557 Pages $11.35

Critique: My opinion on this book is both good and bad. One of my critiques is good because Leo, Jason's best friend, is a very funny character and he makes me want to read on when the chapter is about him. He is very comical. Leo is also very interesting to me because he is the son of hephaestus. And hephaestus is the god of smithing and fire and such. Another good critique would be that the book is adventurous and wicked fun to read. Learning about the characters was interesting cause they all have their own stories. A bad critique i have about the book "The Lost Hero" is that percy jackson from the earlier books went missing. And that made me pretty upset cause I thought percy was an awesome character in the other books. But then Rick Riordan showed me that jason, the main character in the lost hero, is also a very cool person and also as talented as percy. A final good critique would be that the book itself was amazing. I couldn't put the book down. Rick Riordan kept me reading and reading i hope he makes more books that tags along to this series.

The anticipation surrounding Rick Riordan’s latest novel The Lost Hero was so strong, we could have built a temple atop it! What’s not to love?- Modern papyrus.

Posted by Ethan Burge at 5:36 P.M.