Son of Neptune Pt. 2

Continuing on the vein of Rick Riordan's Son of Neptune, second book in the Heroes of Olympus series, let's take a look at the plot.

Percy, missing since before last Christmas, has only now woken up to find his memories missing. He met a wolf, who I think is a goddess of some sort, who told him to go south.

Long story short, Percy nearly dies about a million times, but he makes it south into Camp Jupiter, where he instantly meets Hazel and Frank. Then after almost dying again, Percy gets interrogated by the camp's leader Reyna.

Cutting another long story short, Mars shows up and gives Frank and Percy and another member of Frank's choosing (Hazel, of course) a quest: free Death from his prison in the north - way north, Alaska north.

Things at Camp Jupiter aren't quite as cut-and-dry as at Camp Half-Blood. Even though a god has clearly ordered a quest, the camp argues amongst itself as to how to go about it. They have certain rules that must be followed to a T.

But when our heroes finally get out of the camp into the world on their quest, we've reached familiar Riordan territory. One thing leads to another to another, until it all clashes in an epic climax.

In this book, there might even be two climaxes. One to free Death, where Frank and Hazel are probably going to die and Percy is supposed to drown. A second to defend Camp Jupiter, where a humongous army of monsters is bent on blood.

And then comes the infamous cliffhanger at the end. Fans probably wanted to throttle Riordan in an attempt to get the next book more quickly. You at least won't have that problem, as there are currently two more books released in the series.