The Son of Neptune

“The Son of Neptune” by Rick Riordan, is the second book of “The Lost Hero” series. It is about how the main character, Percy Jackson, and how he wakes up and does not remember anything except his name, that he is a demi-god (half human half god) and he is the son of Poseidon. After battling many monsters like sea monsters and snake ladies he meets this old lady and she tells him that he must carry her across the Tiber river to get to safety. He carries her across the Tiber river and he ends up in the Roman camp. As soon as he crosses the border the old lady turns into Juno, the Roman goddess, and tells Percy to stop the monster population from growing. He must save the god of death.

What I have realized in this book is that each person in the quest (except Percy who does not remember anything) had a deep dark secret. Like Hazel Levesque, the daughter of Pluto, actually died in 1929 but another son of Pluto brought her back to life. Frank Zhang's life depends on a piece of wood because he is the son of Mars but his ancestor on his mother's side was a son of Poseidon. So because he was so powerful Juno gave Frank's mother a piece of wood and said that her son's life depended on it.

I believe that the whole point of this series is that the main characters should trust each other and if they do, I believe they will defeat the main bad guy, the evil Gaea.