Will Apollo Ever Become a God Again
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Author | Rick Riordan |
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Cover artist | John Rocco |
Country | United States |
Language | English (Latin, Greek and Spanish words may be not used) |
Genre | Greek mythological fiction, fantasy, take a chance and children's fiction |
Publisher | Hyperion Books (Us) Penguin Books/Puffin (UK, AU, NZ)[i] [2] [3] |
Published | 2016–2020 |
Media type | Impress (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, east-book |
No. of books | 5 |
Preceded by | The Heroes of Olympus (Series)
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The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively grade a sequel to the Heroes of Olympus serial. It is ready in the same globe every bit the Riordan tales Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus and the references to characters and happenings from before series testify this.[four] A supplementary book, Campsite Jupiter Classified, has likewise been released in addition to the main series.[5]
The start book in the series, The Subconscious Oracle, was released on May 3, 2016.[6] The second book in the serial, The Dark Prophecy, was released on May 2, 2017.[vii] The third book in the series, The Burning Maze, was released on May i, 2018.[eight] The quaternary book in the series, The Tyrant'southward Tomb, was released on September 24, 2019.[9] The 5th volume in the serial, The Tower of Nero, was released on October six, 2020.[10]
Synopsis [edit]
The series follows the trials of the god Apollo, who has been turned into a mortal named Lester Papadopoulos as punishment from his father and male monarch of the gods Zeus. Zeus is angry at Apollo for a variety of reasons, most notably for the younger god's allowing his Roman descendant Octavian to rise to ability during The Heroes of Olympus serial by giving him his blessing. The final book of The Heroes of Olympus titled The Blood of Olympus takes place about six months earlier the beginning of The Trials of Apollo.
Books [edit]
The Subconscious Oracle [edit]
The Subconscious Oracle is the first book of the series. It is told in first-person past the main grapheme Apollo, and it uses haikus for chapter titles. The book was released on May 3, 2016.[vi]
The book opens with Apollo landing in a dumpster in an alley in New York Urban center; in the form of a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos because of the events leading upwards to the war betwixt the Greeks and the Romans. Later on shenanigans happen, he meets Meg McCaffrey. Believing that he must merely undertake a elementary quest to regain his immortality, Apollo and Meg travel to Military camp Half-Claret with the help of Percy Jackson, where they learn most of the globe's Oracles have stopped working. The two undertake a quest to locate and protect a remaining oracle, Dodona, and as well hoping to larn how to assistance the other oracles and regain Apollo's immortality. Apollo likewise finds out that the first oracle he has to save is heavily guarded by the mysterious 'Animal' who happens to be the starting time of the 3 evil Roman-emperors-turned-Gods, the Roman Emperor Nero, who is also the stepfather of 1000000 McCaffrey. [11] Apollo must defeat all the brute lurking in his oracles to regain his former glory on Mountain Olympus!
The Dark Prophecy [edit]
The Dark Prophecy is the second book in the serial. It was released on May ii, 2017.
The book continues the story of Apollo equally the mortal Lester, equally he leaves the safety of Camp Half-Claret and journeys beyond North America to restore the remaining four Oracles and learn how to defeat the Triumvirate of Roman emperors-turned-Gods while being helped by Leo Valdez, Calypso and Festus the bronze dragon, the Hunters of Artemis, and some new characters.[12] Apollo has to confront and defeat the second Triumvirate emperor- Commodus, with whom Apollo shares an bad-mannered and regretful by to obtain the Throne of Memory for his next prophecy. Apollo travels to the Oracle's cave and gets his prophecy and comes back and defends himself and his friends from Commodus.
The Called-for Maze [edit]
The Burning Maze is the tertiary book in the serial. It was released on May 1, 2018.
The book follows Lester Papadopoulos/Apollo, One thousand thousand McCaffrey and Grover Underwood while they endeavor to rescue Herophile, an Oracle that speaks only in puzzles, from the nigh infamous Roman emperor. After fleeing the labyrinth, Apollo dreams about the Oracle proverb that he must save her even though it is a trap. When he wakes up, he finds himself in Grover's base. When One thousand thousand wakes upwardly, they find the line from the prophecy, 'Demeter'southward daughter finds her aboriginal roots' to occur. Apollo and Grover get out to try to notice Gleeson Hedge in an army store called Macro's Military Madness. They then detect out that Macro, the store owner, is really Naevius Sutorius Macro, working for Caligula. He attacks them with an army of automatons. By activating 'command sequence: Daedalus twenty-three', they defeat Macro with his own robots. They then navigate the maze by enlisting the aid of Piper McLean and Jason Grace. Subsequently a raid on Caligula's armada of ships and Jason killed, Apollo and Meg steal a pair of Caligula'south sandals, which let people navigate the Labyrinth. Piper, upset over Jason'south death, is unable to help them anymore. The adjacent solar day, Grover, 1000000, and Apollo using Caligula'southward shoes walk the Labyrinth. They complimentary Herophile, discover a new prophecy, and gratuitous Helios. Piper comes back and kills Medea, a evil and murderous sorceress who was working with Caligula (likewise Helios's grandchild). The book ends with Leo arriving from Camp Jupiter, learns about his friend'southward decease, and Apollo and Meg going to San Francisco while Gleeson Hedge, Mellie, and baby Chuck, Piper, and her dad gear up off to Oklahoma, with a ride from Leo.
The Tyrant's Tomb [edit]
The Tyrant's Tomb is the fourth book in the series. It was released on September 24, 2019.
The story is set at Army camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area. The story starts off with Apollo and Meg taking Jason's body to Campsite Jupiter. On their mode to Army camp Jupiter, they are attacked by eurynomos, but a girl with pink hair arrives with dryads and a faun and kills the Eurynomous. She then introduces herself every bit Lavinia and says she will take them to Camp Jupiter. Afterward that, all the dryads and fauns offset to leave. But as the concluding faun, Don, tries to get out, Lavinia spots him and said that he will not exit because of what he is supposed to owe Lavinia for helping him. They acquit Jason's tomb to the tunnel where she knows a shortcut to Camp Jupiter.
Suddenly, Hazel equally well equally two more euronymous come up. They enter the tunnel, while Hazel tries to kill the euronymous. Apollo tries to sing a song to help Hazel but is scratched in the belly by a Eurynomous earlier Hazel kills it. Due to him beingness scratched, Apollo starts to turn into a Corpse. Hazel sees Jason's coffin and is terrified because she had a dream about Jason being killed by Emperor Caligula. After that, the v carry Jason'due south tomb and arrive in Military camp Jupiter where they are greeted by Frank Zhang and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano while everyone watches Jason's coffin beingness carried. Apollo sings a song nigh his quest and anybody is touched. They all determine that they will deport on with Jason'southward plan which was to build temples to honor the gods.
Apollo then faints and has a dream about Caligula and Commodus discussing their program about either taking Military camp Jupiter without conflict or destroying it using Greek fire explosions past mortars on Caligula's yachts. Apollo finds himself in a bed where Meg explains that he had been asleep for about a day and a one-half. There is a funeral for Jason that night, where Lupa comes and tells Lester to go divine help to defeat their enemies. Apollo and Frank get to Ella and Tyson, who were decorated recreating the Sibylline Books. They go a prophecy regarding Tarquin's tomb, as they found virtually it in the previous prophecy. They later get to the senator where they select him, Meg, Lavinia, and Hazel to get to for a mission to find more nearly the terminal king of Rome, Tarquin, who has returned. After they discover out near the onetime ghost King and his plans, they get more than scared for the camp. They likewise find that Tarquin has kept the soundless god at Sutro Tower. After they return, they realize that to solve communication issues and get divine help, they need to destroy the soundless god. And then a quest is issued for Apollo, Million, and Reyna to get to Sutro Belfry. But that is in the evening of the next day, and most of the morning is spent on grooming.
At the tower, they realize the god is Harpocrates, who had troubles with Apollo. He besides has a jar containing the vocalism of the Sibyl of Cumae. With some difficulty, they manage to become the final jiff of Harpocrates, along with Sibyl's Jar, which is required to go divine help. Every bit they return, they are ambushed by a euronymous again, and after they manage to kill him, they are helped by Lavinia and her friends, who had escaped from the Camp before. Reyna and Lavinia upshot "program Fifty" to defeat the yachts that Apollo saw in his dream. Afterward Apollo and 1000000 return, they encounter the army camp in the midst of a war. Apollo calls for divine help on Temple Hill. He decides to phone call Diana. Frank (the other praetor of Rome) sacrifices himself property his firewood, killing Caligula along the fashion to salve the other legionnaires. Apollo later kills Commodus in the grief of losing Frank. Commodus gives the order to fire. Due to plan 50, information technology fails and the yachts are destroyed.
Meanwhile, Tarquin had reached the bookshop where the books were being re-written, but Ella and Tyson are not there. Meg and Hazel fight Tarquin. Diana finally arrives and kills Tarquin and heals Apollo just in time. Reyna and Lavinia, along with Peaches, return. Arion rescues Frank who mysteriously survives death and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano pledges herself to the goddess Diana (Artemis) and joins the Hunters. Dakota, son of Bacchus, passes away overnight due to wounds that he got in boxing. He was the longtime centurion of the Fifth Cohort. Don the faun also dies. He gets reincarnated into a laurel tree, Apollo'southward tree of victory. Hazel is voted as the new praetor of Camp Jupiter and Lavinia voted as centurion of the Fifth Cohort.
Apollo receives his onetime Godly Bow as a gift from Military camp Jupiter, Meg receives seeds and they set off to New York after receiving the last and final prophecy from Ella and Tyson, which they realize is a terza rima, and they would accept to detect more stanzas in the East. They become in hopes to again be reunited with their old friends from Campsite One-half-Blood.[13]
The Tower of Nero [edit]
The Tower of Nero is the 5th and final book of The Trials of Apollo. The volume was released on 6th October 2020. On February 14, 2020, hypable.com released the start ii chapters of the book.
While returning to New York, Lester and Meg McCaffrey encounter an amphisbaena, which recites the second stanza of the Terza Rima prophecy. Inside minutes, they are attacked past Nero'southward Gaul, Luguselwa, or Lu, and her Germani. Apollo and One thousand thousand escape with the assistance of Luguselwa, who turns out to be on their side. The trio reaches the Upper Eastside. They decide to go to Percy Jackson for help. They meet Percy'south female parent, Sally, his stepdad Paul Blofis, and his newborn baby sister, Estelle. They learn that Percy and his girlfriend Annabeth are on the West Coast. There, they program on defeating Nero which involves they fight confronting Lu in open daylight and Apollo pushing Lu off the edifice so that Nero believes that Luguselwa is on his side when she really isn't, every bit Nero could see it through 1 of the security cameras installed in a nearby building. All goes co-ordinate to plan. Then Lester and One thousand thousand use the Chariot of Damnation to reach Camp One-half-Blood. The Grey Sisters recite some other couplet of the Terza Rima prophecy. Subsequently they accomplish their destination, they find that Chiron had gone to a coming together with gods from other pantheons including Bastet from The Kane Chronicles, and MÃmir from Magnus Hunt and the Gods of Asgard to discuss a "common problem."
Apollo receives a not-so-warm welcome from his half-brother Dionysus, the god of wine and the manager of the campsite. Later on fainting due to exhaustion on arrival, he sees in his dream that their plan is working. Lu told Nero about the escape, and Nero gave an ultimatum to Meg and Apollo to surrender within 2 days or else New York, specially Manhattan, burns. The next day, with the assistance of the Grey Sisters' prophecy, Lester, Meg, Volition Solace, and Nico di Angelo, go to run into Rachel Elizabeth Cartel. In that location, she warns about some cattle that are standing outside. Later on some talk, and a decision to fail Nero's Greek fire vats with the assistance of troglodytes (short trogs), a species of very good diggers, Rachel of a sudden spouts a prophecy, the last couplet, but Python meddled with information technology. Of a sudden, the cattle, beingness the Tauri Sylvestre, attack. The v barely manage to escape the destroyed house. Nico helps them to reach the troglodytes via shadow travel, while Will is revealed to accept the power to glow in the dark.
At the trogs' encampment underground, information technology is revealed that the trogs are very quick runners and diggers. Soon plenty, they decide that Volition, Nico, and Rachel will become with the trogs to disable the vats, and and then alert Campsite One-half-Blood, while One thousand thousand and Apollo surrender themselves, to get closer to Nero'southward fasces, the source of his power and immortality, to destroy it and impale Nero. But it turned out that Nero already knew of their plan, every bit the powers of Commodus and Caligula joined into him to brand him three times more than powerful. Luguselwa's hands are cut off, and she and Apollo are thrown in prison house, while Million is forced past Nero to go to her old room in the Imperial Residences inside the Tower of Nero.
Lester, after just managing to revive Luguselwa, decides to detect out more near who is guarding the fasces. It turned out to be a leontocephaline, the Persian god Mithras' creation. He guards immortality, so he wants a cede of information technology in return to granting access to the fasces. Lu and Lester escape prison house. Lu decides to requite her immortality upwards to get the fasces, while Lester goes to salve Meg.
Upstairs, he realizes that the unabridged lower flooring surface area has become a battleground. Military camp Half-Blood heroes have come in. Kayla and Austin help Lester to reach Meg. On the style, Lester enters the wrong room, the 1 with the buttons to fire upwardly Manhattan. The button is pressed, but nothing happens, equally the vats have been disabled. Nico also shows upward.
Later on some searching, and Austin playing a vocal to divert away Germani, Lester runs by a laptop. Nero video calls that laptop and tells him that he has a programme B: to release Sassanid gas, a very poisonous gas, and kill everyone in the building. Lester has to come to the throne room in fifteen minutes, or else everyone will dice. Lester tells the trogs about the gas trap, who run to disable it.
Meanwhile, Lester reaches the throne room, where all the adopted children of Nero are nowadays, including Meg. Nero orders the dryads in that location to kill Lester or exist killed by the Royal children. However, Million stops them and chooses to stand by Apollo. Suddenly, Nico shows up with the Tauri Silvestri, who has become a pawn of Nico. Nico orders it to impale Nero. The bull fails, only it ends upwards creating a lot of chaos. Nero desperately tries to search the remote with the button to release Sassanid gas. In the center of the chaos, ane of the Imperial demigods manages to stab Lester, just he survives.
After the chaos ends, Nero finally finds the correct remote and presses the push. He laughs, just suddenly, Volition, Rachel, and Lu show up, along with the trog leader and the emperor's fasces. To Nero's atheism, the trogs had been successful in disabling the gas trap every bit well. Nero is forced to reveal the truth. He is not that powerful. Instead, he is being controlled as a pawn by Python. If he is killed, then Python would be nigh impossible to kill, every bit the entire Triumvirate's ability will go to Python. He is given a selection, fight and die a hopeless boxing, or alive for some more years in a large prison. He chooses the first one, but shortly gets entangled in a tug of state of war with Lester over the fasces, which Lester was trying to break. He manages to project his godly powers, using which he revokes Nero's divinity and immortality, and breaks the fasces, killing him.
Camp Half-Claret stays at the Belfry to aid the Imperial children rehabilitate after years of corruption, but Lester has to become, as he has to quickly defeat Python. Using the Labyrinth, he manages to reach Delphi, halfway beyond the world, in a matter of minutes.
Lester faces off against Python for the final time. Python starts calling him Apollo, a big achievement for Lester. But Lester is chop-chop overpowered by the giant serpent, who utters a prophecy, proverb Apollo will autumn. As Lester is trying to evade Python, he loses his bow, which falls down to anarchy. Without a bow, he had nothing to fight with. The Python managed to get Apollo in a death agree. The arrow of Dodona sacrifices itself to defeat Python and finishes Python'south prophecy, saying that Apollo volition autumn, but Apollo must rise again. Apollo manages to blind Python and make him loosen his hold on him by hitting him in the optics with the arrow of Dodona and his elbow. Then he drags Python into Tartarus with him, fulfilling Python'south recent prophecy, just in a more than literal sense.
The two almost fall down into Chaos but are saved by a ledge. Apollo, who is in no mood to fight, is attacked by Python, but manages to throw him off the ledge into Chaos, destroying him forever and freeing the Oracles from his power. Apollo himself is left dangling off the border, when the goddess of the Styx, who had followed him all along since he broke his vows on the Styx in the offset volume, congratulates him on learning his lesson which he realizes is to always uphold a hope that y'all brand. Apollo becomes a god once more, and, two weeks later on, reappears in Olympus, where he is welcomed every bit an Olympian.
Apollo, at present existence a god, goes to meet his friends. He splits himself into multiple Apollos and goes to observe them in no particular social club. He visits Camp Half-Blood, where Nico and Will tell him that Nico suspects that a vox he's been hearing from Tartarus lately is his sometime friend the Titan Iapetus, also known equally Bob, who supposedly died helping Percy and Annabeth to escape. With the help of the trogs, Nico and Will intend to travel to Tartarus to find out for certain and rescue Bob if they can. Equally if on cue, Rachel delivers a prophecy, which Volition notes to sound bad. Apollo also visits Camp Jupiter, where Frank and Hazel are doing a great job at being praetors. Hazel gets rid of the curse on her jewels, and now they tin be spent. Frank is having fun turning his cape into a cardigan, while Percy and Annabeth accept finally reached the Academy there, and study Marine Biological science and Compages respectively. Apollo gives Percy his Mom'due south cookies. He visits the Union Station at Indianapolis, where Georgina is beingness taught past Jo. Reyna, who is there with the other Hunters of Artemis, tells Leo to be more mature when approaching Calypso, who is currently studying in loftier school and had gone to a summer camp as a counselor. The Hunters are there to hunt downwardly the Temussian Play a joke on. Apollo visits Piper McLean in Oklahoma, where she has started a new life with her Dad and Shel, her new girlfriend. Apollo likewise visits 1000000 McCaffrey, who is living in Palm Springs with the dryads at that place, Lu, and the Majestic children, whom she is educational activity gardening. The Melais are acting like the security baby-sit. Apollo gifts Meg a unicorn, and promises her that he will come back.
Future [edit]
Rick Riordan is Collaborating with Marking Oshiro for a new novel in the Camp One-half Blood Chronicles, set to release in 2023. The story follows Nico and Volition travelling together to the depths of Tartarus to rescue the Titan Bob. Riordan announced in Nov 2021 that he is going to view Mark Oshiro's scripts.
Supplementary works [edit]
From Percy Jackson: Army camp Half-Blood Confidential [edit]
A companion book titled From Percy Jackson: Camp Half-Blood Confidential was released on May ii, 2017.[14] It is based on groundwork facts of Military camp Half-Blood.
Camp Jupiter Classified [edit]
The volume explores the story of one of the side characters, Claudia the daughter of Cardea and legacy of Mercury, through the perspective of her personal diary.
Principal characters [edit]
- Lester Papadopoulos/Apollo: Lester Papadopoulos is the mortal teenage incarnation of the god Apollo and is the main grapheme of the Trials of Apollo series. He has to deal with such ordinary homo problems as "zits, flabby muscles, and feeling hurting" one time he becomes mortal. He is looking for ancient Oracles which has been missing for decades to restore in guild to gain back his godhood.
- 1000000 McCaffrey: Meg McCaffrey is a twelve-yr-old demigod girl of Demeter. She is described equally a colorfully dressed street urchin. She is fierce, snobby, and tight-lipped about her by. She has a fearsome protector grain spirit named Peaches. She becomes Apollo'due south primary in The Hidden Oracle.
- Peaches: Peaches is a Karpos that comes to Meg McCaffrey when she is in need.
- Will Solace: Will Solace is the son of the Greek god Apollo. He is the head counselor of Motel vii and a healer. He assists his dad and the other heroes in The Subconscious Oracle and The Belfry of Nero. He is dating Nico di Angelo.
- Nico di Angelo: Nico di Angelo is the son of the god Hades. He assists Apollo and the other heroes in The Hidden Oracle and The Tower of Nero. He is dating Will Solace.
- Leo Valdez: Leo Valdez is the son of the god Hephaestus. He returned in The Subconscious Oracle with Calypso, on his bronze burn down-animate dragon, Festus, after being missing for over six months. He assists Lester in The Night Prophecy.
- Calypso: Calypso is the daughter of the Titan Atlas. After being imprisoned on the island of Ogygia for millennia, she is rescued by Leo Valdez and brought to the mortal world. She assists Lester throughout The Dark Prophecy.
- Kayla Knowles: A Demigod daughter of Apollo. Skilled archer. She is seen in The Hidden Oracle and The Tower Of Nero
- Austin Lake: A demigod son of Apollo.
- Grover Underwood: Grover Underwood is a satyr, protector, seeker, and Lord of the Wild. He is summoned past Meg to guide them through the Labyrinth in The Burning Maze.
- Piper McLean: Piper McLean is the daughter of the goddess Aphrodite. She assists the heroes in The Burning Maze.
- Jason Grace: Jason Grace is the son of the god Jupiter. He helps Apollo, One thousand thousand and Piper in The Burning Maze. He dies while profitable Apollo and trying to fight the mighty emperor, Caligula, as he and Piper were given a prophecy stating that 1 of them volition undergo a three alphabetic character discussion that starts with D, which was revealed to exist "die".
- Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano: Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano is the girl of the goddess Bellona, and one-time Praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata. She assists the heroes in The Tyrant'due south Tomb, where she and then becomes a Hunter of Artemis.
- Hazel Levesque: Hazel Levesque is the daughter of the god Pluto. She assists the heroes in The Tyrant'south Tomb, where she then becomes Praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata alongside Frank Zhang. Hazel is dating Frank.
- Lavinia Asimov: Lavinia Asimov is the girl of the muse Terpsichore. She assists the heroes in The Tyrant'southward Tomb, where she then becomes Centurion of the Fifth Cohort.
- Frank Zhang: Frank Zhang is the son of the god Mars, and descendant of Poseidon/Neptune, and Praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata. He assists the heroes in The Tyrant'due south Tomb, where he burns his stick of life, killing Triumvirate Emperor Caligula. Frank is dating Hazel.
- Percy Jackson: Percy Jackson is the son of the god Poseidon. Apollo intended for him to be his master, but he was not interested in being part of another Big Prophecy. He helps Apollo and Meg by guiding them safely to Camp Half-Claret, and thereby starting them on their journeying and serial of quests ahead.
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