Review of Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus book one, The Lost Hero

*Warning there are spoilers in this review*

*From inside the cover*

JASON HAS A PROBLEM.  He doesn't remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip.  Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo.  They're all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids," as Leo puts it.  What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly?  Jason doesn't know anything--except that everything seems very wrong.

PIPER HAS A SECRET.  Her father, a famous actor, has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble.  Piper doesn't understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn't recognize her.  When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she's a going to find out, whether she wants to or not.

LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS.  When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home.  But there's weird stuff, too--like curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing.  Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them--including Leo--is related to a god.  Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?

Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series.  Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment. 

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After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own:

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, 
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath, 
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they'll need the help of some familiar demigods.

The Lost Hero was an excellent and thrilling book.  Like the Percy Jackson Series, it kept me gripped into it with all claws bearing.  With the New prophecy, seven Demigods must come together to fight what maybe the next biggest war in all history.  But what does this mean exactly???  Will we see new Demigods from different religions or will they be from not Greece, but the biggest empire that existed The Roman Empire??? Mr. Riordan brings a massive mystery like his previous five stories in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians, I've heard myths about Gaia or Gaea and Ouranos or Ouranbos like his name is spelled in different books and countries and neither are associated with being evil.  Gaia is known in the mythology books as being mother nature and showing her sons the Titans that evil isn't what is justified.  For The Heroes of Olympus series, Mr. Riordan brings a new change to what so many myths make these two out to be as in the terms of good.  For Book one and for Mr. Riordan I give both an A+ and a gold star for how good this book has been and how the next four will keep me on the edge of my seat as each book comes out for the next three years.  The Hardcover books are fantastic and worth all the time I read each one.