Book Blurb (from Goodreads):
Jason has a problem. He
doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding
hands with a girl. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper. His best
friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness
School, a boarding school for “bad kids”, as Leo puts it. What he did to
end up here, Jason has no idea — except that everything seems very
wrong.
Piper has a secret. Her father, a famous
actor, has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal
that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her,
and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school
field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called
Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?
Leo has a way with tools.
His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the
place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training,
monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone
keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all,
his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.
My Review
I
was actually putting off reading this book because I think I got a
little to attached to Percy Jackson and didn't want to move on to new
heroes, even though Percy will be here in the series. But I must admit
that the new heroes were pretty cool. The plot was pretty good but ll
the while when the basic world of gods and myth was being reintroduced
to the heroes, I felt that too many things were suddenly added because
this book is taking place just one, two months after the previous book. I
mean, that suddenly you find out that Camp Half-Blood always had a
mental, bronze dragon? When did that happen? My point is that a lot has
changed and it took me some time to get used to that. This also
influenced my final rating.
This book was written in third person,
out of the perspective of our three new heroes: Jason (the odd one
out), Piper (secretive girlfriend) and Leo (the joker and weird fire
dude). I didn't really like Leo's perspective that much even though he
was constantly making bad jokes and had a funny description, but his
story wasn't really as interesting as Jason's and Piper's because they
are keeping secrets. And (YAY!) the old characters we know and love like
Annabeth are also mentioned. Besides that, a lot of other new gods were
introduced, new friends and everything.
It also happened, that you get a bit too attached to creatures and when they die... yeah...
Overall
though, I made some points above about the book that I didn't really
like but I still loved it and give it 4 out of 5 stars!
I had the exact same feelings going into it, so I'm glad you still enjoyed it like I did :)
ReplyDeleteHere's what I'm waiting on: http://enchantedbyya.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/anticipated-releases-of-2015.html