The Lost Hero

The Lost Hero begins Rick Riordan's sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians; this series is titled The Heroes of Olympus, and it picks up the winter after the conclusion of The Last Olympian.

The Lost Hero is told from three different perspectives: Jason, Leo, and Piper.

Jason wakes up on a bus with no memories of anything, including Piper and Leo, who say they've known Jason for months. When chaos erupts over the Grand Canyon, he acts on instinct and more or less saves everyone from dying. Then Annabeth shows up and takes our three protagonists to Camp Half-Blood, where Jason continuously refers to the gods by their Roman names.

Leo is the scrawny mechanic who's always making jokes, but who's also always running away. He's stayed at his current school for a while, though, and he finally made friends in Piper and Jason. Sadly, he's been feeling like the third wheel again ever since Piper and Jason started dating. When he gets taken to Camp Half-Blood, he's warily excited about learning that, all of a sudden, he has a dad and several siblings - even if all of them, including the six-year-old, look like they could beat him up in a heartbeat if they felt like it.

Piper. What can I say? This girl is a mess of contradiction. She's the rich beautiful half-Indian daughter of a movie star who pays little to no attention to her, so she steals anything and everything to get his attention. But she tries hard to look less beautiful and she hates a ton of attention. Finally, she was shipped off to the school where she met Jason and Leo. She's sometimes shy, sometimes tough-talking, sometimes "sweetly" in charge. I wish I could give you a less biased opinion of her, but the more I read from her perspective, the less I like her. I'm sorry.

Anyways, today was a lot about the protagonists. Tomorrow, I guess I'll do a bit more plot.