The Trials of Apollo

The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle

by Rick Riordan

Summary: Rick Riordan has produced another great novel about Camp Half-Blood. Apollo is a great new character to explore and read about. He is humorous and very self centered. Zeus has banished him to the mortal world in a human vessel. Being banished is nothing new to Apollo, but being vulnerable is a different story. The campers at Camp Half-Blood have been vanishing from camp. Apollo comes to camp discovering the disappearances and the fact that the oracles are not working. He takes on the quest to solve the disappearances with the help of a friend. He comes to realize that Meg is not on his side completely and he is being played by her. His quest to find the Grove of Dodona is successful but at a price. People he thinks are friends turn out not have his back and the camp suffers a tremendous amount of destruction. By the end he is still mortal and has not proven himself to Zeus. He comes to realize his help is needed to defeat the former emperors and restore the Oracle of Delphi by facing his old enemy Python.