Heroes of Olympus - The son of Neptune
The son of Neptune from the series Heroes of Olympus (original title: The Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune ) is a fantasy book for young people by the writer Rick Riordan . The original was released in 2011. It is the continuation of the story The Disappeared Demigod and at the same time the second volume in the series of novels.
background
The book was published in 2011 and the German version was also published in 2012. It has been included in the bestseller list by several US media outlets. Among other things, it landed at number 1 in USA Today magazine's bestseller and at number 2 in The Wall Street Journal's “best selling books” in the categories “Hardcover Fiction” and “Fiction Combined”. The New York Times listed the book in April 2012 at number 4 in the category "Children's Chapter Books". The story is told in the third person from the perspective of the three demigods. The main characters are Percy Jackson , a son of Poseidon , Frank Zhang, a son of Mars and Hazel Levesque, a daughter of Pluto .
action
Percy Jackson wakes up with no memories of his previous life. He arrives at “Camp Jupiter”, where he is received with great suspicion. Shortly before, he met the goddess Juno and demanded that he carry her across the small Tiber. At camp he befriends Hazel Levesque, a daughter of Pluto, and Frank Zhang, a son of Mars. Frank Zhang receives the order from his father to go to the land beyond the gods to free the imprisoned god of the dead Thanatos and to defeat the giant Alkyoneus . However, you only have time until the Fortuna Festival on June 24th. Frank goes to Alaska with Percy and Hazel. Along the way, Percy Jackson regains his memories of drinking gorgon blood from the right side of his body, which causes a healing. Hazel Levesque is a dead soul from 1943 who has returned from the underworld. With her death she has ensured that the giant Alkyoneus does not wake up although she previously tried to wake him up by Gaia . Frank's life, however, seems to be tied to a stick: if the stick burns, Frank's soul burns too. With part of his soul fire, Frank frees Thanatos from his chains and thus recognizes his gift. He can turn into animals. Hazel and Frank kill the giant and return to Camp Jupiter in time, where the giant Polybotes fights the Romans with an army. Percy Jackson and the god Terminius kill him and use the Amazons to beat the monster army. At the end of the story, Percy is promoted to praetor and convinces the Romans that a Greek warship may land on Roman territory.
characters
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expenditure
- Rick Riordan: The Son of Neptune. Disney / Hyperion Books, New York 2011, ISBN 1-4231-4059-1 .
- Rick Riordan: The Son of Neptune. In: Heroes of Olympus. Volume 2. Carlsen, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-551-55602-8 .
Web links
- The son of Neptune. on rickriordan.com
- Heroes of Olympus. Volume 2: The Son of Neptune. on carlsen.de
- Rick Riordan: The Son of Neptune - Heroes of Olympus 2 on nicoles-fantasy.de (review)
- The son of Neptune - Heroes of Olympus (2) on jugendbuch-couch.de (review)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bob Minzesheimer: Rick Riordan's' Son of Neptune '' rises to No. 1. from books.usatoday.com, accessed February 17, 2015.
- ↑ Best-Selling Books (October 2011) in wsj.com, accessed on February 17, 2015.
- ↑ Best Sellers - The son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan on nytimes.com, accessed February 17, 2015.