In Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero, first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, a lot has happened since the end of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
For one thing, Percy has vanished. About a week or so before The Lost Hero begins, Percy told Annabeth goodnight and was gone the next morning. Annabeth and most of the rest of the camp has been searching day and night to find him.
Finally, Hera gives Annabeth some advice: Jason can lead her to Percy.
But since Jason clearly remembers nothing before this day, he doesn't seem to be much help in this regard.
True to Riordan form, there now comes a quest and a deadline. Hera has been kidnapped, and Jason is given the quest to free her. I don't remember why the amnesiac was given such an important quest, but then again, Hera isn't much loved by anyone.
At any rate, Leo volunteers to go with Jason, and Piper gets into a fight with one of her new half-sisters as to which of them should accompany Jason as well. Naturally, our protagonist wins.
Along this book, we meet old friends and make new ones. We solve many problems and our characters all seem to grow. Sadly, with the other books in the series, that seems to be a bit debatable with all but Jason, and even that could by some be called regressing.
And, just like in the first Percy Jackson book, we are finally introduced to the main villain for the series.
This book was fun and exciting, especially for those fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians who were sorry to see the series end. I did like it, but I also do have to say that it didn't seem quite the same quality of writing as the preceding series.
Of course, I suppose that could have something to do with I was missing Percy as badly as Annabeth. And it could also have something to do with my distaste for Piper. But still.
Anyways, in all, not a bad start to a new series.
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