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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Rick Riordan has written over 30 novels in his lifetime and that's not to mention the graphic novel adaptations, short stories, and reference books he also created along the way. A novelist from San Antonio, Texas, Riordan's first major publishing success came in 1997 with Big Red Tequila, the first in his Tres Navarre series about unlicensed private investigator Jackson "Tres" Navarre.
In some ways, The Sword of Summer feels like a bit of a retread of Percy Jackson and Riordan's Egyptian god series, The Kane Chronicles, but there are still plenty of new characters and ideas to keep the story feeling fresh. The unique setting is particularly enjoyable. It has the feeling of a book like Harry Potter, taking place in a specialized school where other heroes train for the upcoming battle.
In The Son of Neptune, an amnesiac Percy travels to Alaska to free Thanatos and stop Gaea from destroying the world. The first half of the book is slightly confusing, but the second half picks up and becomes a thrilling adventure that makes the rest of the series a must-read. Riordan does an excellent job balancing the Roman and Greek gods to make them seem similar but still entirely different characters.
It's a fast-paced quest that moves along much more quickly than readers who go back to it may expect, but the bones of what would emerge as Riordan's signature style are all there. His humor, attention to detail, and his deep and realistic characters are all in this novel. Some of the dialogue is choppy, and the story rarely takes a second to breathe, but there's a reason the book led to six more in the series.
It's Apollo who makes the series. He's a much different character than Percy, despite being similar in superficial ways. As a fallen god, Apollo is incredibly vain, which invariably leads to some very funny moments in the series, as does Apollo's inability to always understand human customs. It's as if all the funny moments from the MCU's Thor were combined in one fish-out-of-water story.
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