The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

This month’s Saturday Spotlight theme is Friendsgiving! So far, I have shared The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann and Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger. You can find those posts here and here.

This week I am sharing the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan! This series is much better than the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, in my opinion. This series has more character development and has more friend groups. I love all the little friend groups throughout this series, and I love how they all come together into a bigger friend group. I also really like how friendship is balanced by romance- I think it’s important to have a balance of both. This is definitely a more adventurous series. The other two books I have discussed had action and adventure, but this book takes it to another level. They travel all over the Earth, and even through the Underworld, throughout this series.

Heroes of Olympus is perfect for anyone who wants multiple friend groups, a balance of friendship and romance, and a lot of action and adventure!

JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids,” as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn’t know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.

PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.

LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason’s amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?