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.
This is what I say :
Right after The Blood of Olympus, I was every so ready for another Olympus adventure and lo and behold, I discovered that Rick Riordan wrote another series which takes place right after The Blood of Olympus. And not only it's a new series (new to me as I wasn't aware of it's existence), there's already three books to this series of five books and book number four is being released as at the moment.
The Trials of Apollo is all about who else but Apollo. In the Blood of Olympus, it was mentioned that Zeus hold Apollo responsible for the demigod's quests (The Heroes of Olympus Series) and The Trials of Apollo scribed the punishment Zeus inflicted on Apollo. He turned Apollo into a mortal (not a demigod but a mortal).
The Hidden Oracle is the first book of the series. It's a very easy and light and amusing read. If you are expecting the usual heroes to make their appearances, you will be disappointed as they are off and out in the world doing mortal stuff like going to colleges/universities and sitting for exams. Percy did make an appearance for a short while towards the early chapters and there's mentioned of the demigods' names here and there but other than Nico and Will, the rest of the demigods are not the main ones that readers are used to.
The fate of Leo was mentioned was well.
And of course, there's a new demigod heroine introduced.
All in all, I enjoyed The Hidden Oracle and can't wait for the second title, The Dark Prophecy.
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