The Son of Neptune

The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, 513 pages

This is the second book in Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series, which has a lot in common with the Percy Jackson series (including characters). Much like the memory-free Jason character in The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus book 1), this book focuses on Percy Jackson, who has mysteriously had his memory erased too, and is fighting against Medusa's sisters just outside of San Francisco when we meet him.

The book takes Percy and a couple of Roman demigods on a series of adventures along the west coast and into Alaska, territory that had previously been untouched in this series or Riordan's previous Percy Jackson series. The adventures are a bit predictable by this point, although this series far surpasses Riordan's other post-Percy Jackson series (which focuses on the less-known Egyptian mythology) in readability, intrigue and characters that the reader actually cares about. Really, the biggest issues with this series are the questions that keep popping up in my head as I read: When is Riordan going to run out of mythological creatures/stories to rehash, and when will he run out of travel destinations for the kid demigods to visit?