The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo Book 1)
-
-
4.0 • 7 Ratings
-
-
- $20.99
-
- $20.99
Publisher Description
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo Book 1 by Rick Riordan, read by Robbie Daymond.
How do you punish an immortal?
By making him human.
After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour.
But Apollo has many enemies - gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.
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.
Listeners Also Bought