The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo Book 1)
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4.2 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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The latest series from international bestselling author, Rick Riordan
He was once an immortal God. Now, he's a teenage boy called Lester.
Apollo has angered his father Zeus for the last time.
So, how do you punish an immortal?
By making him human. Obviously.
Cast down from Olympus, he's weak, disorientated and stuck in New York City as a teenage boy.
It's the first time he's been without his powers, and he has to survive in the modern world.
Which isn't an easy feat for a four-thousand-year old deity, especially one with as many enemies as he has.
Apollo needs help, and he can only think of one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.
© Rick Riordan 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Few writers pull off world-building as breezily as Rick Riordan. The master storyteller behind Percy Jackson drops us back into that colourful universe of flawed gods and demi-gods, as Apollo falls powerless into a New York dumpster on the first page. Banished from Olympus by his fuming father, Zeus, Apollo arrives stuck in the body of a nondescript mortal teenager. But he's his usual mouthy, delusional self, brandishing Riordan’s signature rat-a-tat wit, which is conveyed excellently by narrator Robbie Daymond's conversational drollness. A coming-of-age adventure set against the soap opera of human existence, The Hidden Oracle kickstarts the Trials of Apollo series in typically fine form.
