Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, won the Red House Children's Book Award and is now a blockbuster film franchise starring Logan Lerman. Biography: Rick Riordan, dubbed 'storyteller of the gods' by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five New York Times number-one bestselling book series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson, the Heroes of Olympus and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology the Kane Chronicles, based on Egyptian mythology and Magnus Chase, based on Norse mythology.Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK.If you get annoyed by irrepressible ego this book is not for you, however, it shows even gods can learn and although it may rife on the first Thor movie there is a lot more going on. Being humiliated isn’t the end it’s just the beginning. If they lose, they die and humanity will suffer. If they win Apollo will get his divinity back. And then Python, Apollo’s sworn enemy (pardon the pun). After overcoming many trials, but not his ego, and fighting and saving Camp Jupiter, with plenty of snark, Apollo and partner Meg are back in the city that never sleeps to do final battle with Nero.

Supplied by Penguin Random House New ZealandĪpollo annoyed Zeus and now he is a teenager named Lester on the mean streets of Manhattan. The Tower of Nero: The trials of Apollo #5 They must face the last emperor, the terrifying Nero, and destroy him once and for all.Ĭan Apollo find his godly form again? Will Meg be able to face up to her troubled past? Destiny awaits. Now Apollo and Meg must get ready for the final – and, let’s face it, probably fatal – adventure. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis.īut though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated.

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