Enjoyed reading "The Lost Hero" to my son. He's taken a big interest in Greek and roman heroes, even to the point of getting library books out on the topic. Nice.
The book marks a new series by Rick Riordan - a follow-up to the Percy Jackson books. The series is definitely a sequel - Percy is missing, a new kid (Jason) shows up at camp Half-Blood with a memory problem. He has powers and refers to the Greek gods by Roman names - curious.
The book read nicely, my son was enthralled - the only problem is that there is a wait until the next books - we "found" Percy Jackson late in the series, about the time of the movie, so we were able to run through the books very quickly. This wait seems long.
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As is relatively obvious, there exists a Roman version of Camp Half-Blood on the west coast. Apparently the demi-gods tend to kill each other, so they keep the camps separate and mutually invisible, with attempts to remove memories of any demi-gods that run into each other. This is a nice way to introduce more larger than life heroes, without diminishing the existing heroes - well done Mr. Riordan.
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