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Review: review on the "trials of Apollo" "the hidden Oracle" - William Cox Mrs.Price English 2/4/24 The Trials of Apollo (book 1) Review Rick Rordan Greek mythology and fantasy, titled The Trials Of Apollo, express the god Apollo’s hard times after having his godly power taken away and the mission he must go through.This book has a very deep and enticing plot that will suck the reader into the story displaying many challenges throughout the novel, showing the theme of withstanding hard times. The story begins with Apollo instantly put into a difficult possession. He is saved by his new friend Meg and they seek out help and end up in Camp Half Blood. Apollo later realizes that the oracle is broken and he needs to fix it but while he is doing an activity for the camp he finds the oracle. They later proceed on admission to save and fix the oracle; their mission will be very challenging. I enjoyed reading this book very much and there are almost only good words for it. The plot goes very well with the actual history of Greek mythology and flows smoothly with it considering Apollo had lost his powers more than once already. I also enjoyed all the characters and their personalities and Apollo’s personality I felt would be very accurate to him in real life. Two things I did not love about this book but were not huge deals was that I felt that Petrcy Jackson could have had a bigger role in the story and that could have helped the beginning of the story get off better. Another thing that I disagreed with was the woods at the camp were made out to be very dangerous while in the other books connected to this one such as the percy Jackson series the woods were not nearly as dangerous and they had games within the woods. Rick Rordan writes very fluidly from a first person perspective. He uses lots of similes, metaphors, personification, and comparisons. This read is best for people from the age of 12 to about 16 or 17 but also anyone interested in Greek mythology would be intrigued. This book was somewhat long with about 373 pages long. I think this book should be read because it shows how important it is to have people by your side and to trust those people. Works Cited
Review: Wonderful new book from Rick Riordan. Funniest one yet and fun as well. - Growing up I read every book I could read on greek mythology-starting with Edith Hamilton's book. I also started a club in grade school just learning all the stories of both greek and roman gods and all the attendant myths. We even made up our own stories with all the characters we read about and we all had our favorites. I had a friend who after a fight with her mom decided she worshipped Apollo and told her mother she would no longer be going to bible study. I had completely forgotten this until I started reading all the Percy Jackson adventures some years ago. Children's literature today is different from my youth and I find that it teaches many worldly lessons while using the prototypes of typical stories such as the hero's journey. Witness the phenomenon of Harry Potter. Whose books I love too. However I really applaud Mr. Riordan, who obviously teaches kids as well, for crafting these stories with an obvious love of mythology while keeping them so contemporary and relatable to kids ( adults too). I always read his books hoping they also inspire readers to read the real myths and stories of ancient Greek and Roman societies, just as well as the Egyptian and Nordic mythology. For me this was the funniest one he has written yet. I don't agree that he is looking for a younger audience with this, but I do agree that the book is much more fun and interesting to read if you have read the Percy Jackson series and there are in-jokes and references you won't get otherwise. Apollo as a god is present in most of them and the reader gets to know him as sort of the god who is a bit clueless. In this book he finds some hard won personal insight in becoming a 16 year old mortal and I think in part gives life sessions in some way to adults as well as kids. For me , this book had far more sneaky references to things that really a much older reader, like myself, was going to catch. For example, the character Rhea was enormously amusing with her hippy speak and references to the sixties and other events. How many kids are going to know who Lizzy ( Elisabeth) Stanton was? Hopefully they get interested enough to look it up. I wondered how actually a 13 year old would read this book, as it is less about the story and fighting very scary monsters and insurmountable odds as in his other books, but more of a character study of a somewhat foolish and pompous character who is so infatuated with himself he doesn't give much attention to the demigods he knows and gets his comeuppance when Zeus, his dad, decides he needs to learn some lessons. The joy of this book is how Apollo now becomes someone who you quickly learn to like and laugh at and laugh with. And in fact grows up some. I'm not going to go into the storyline. Other reviewers have. It's much like many of the prior books and is setting up the story for the next books. However I highly recommend this book to anyone. I'm glad when reading the reviews I am not the only young at heart boomer reading these books. I just wish we had had them for my greek and roman myth club in 5th grade. We might have given Rick Riordan a run for his money with our stories.

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review on the "trials of Apollo" "the hidden Oracle"
*by C***O on February 5, 2024*

William Cox Mrs.Price English 2/4/24 The Trials of Apollo (book 1) Review Rick Rordan Greek mythology and fantasy, titled The Trials Of Apollo, express the god Apollo’s hard times after having his godly power taken away and the mission he must go through.This book has a very deep and enticing plot that will suck the reader into the story displaying many challenges throughout the novel, showing the theme of withstanding hard times. The story begins with Apollo instantly put into a difficult possession. He is saved by his new friend Meg and they seek out help and end up in Camp Half Blood. Apollo later realizes that the oracle is broken and he needs to fix it but while he is doing an activity for the camp he finds the oracle. They later proceed on admission to save and fix the oracle; their mission will be very challenging. I enjoyed reading this book very much and there are almost only good words for it. The plot goes very well with the actual history of Greek mythology and flows smoothly with it considering Apollo had lost his powers more than once already. I also enjoyed all the characters and their personalities and Apollo’s personality I felt would be very accurate to him in real life. Two things I did not love about this book but were not huge deals was that I felt that Petrcy Jackson could have had a bigger role in the story and that could have helped the beginning of the story get off better. Another thing that I disagreed with was the woods at the camp were made out to be very dangerous while in the other books connected to this one such as the percy Jackson series the woods were not nearly as dangerous and they had games within the woods. Rick Rordan writes very fluidly from a first person perspective. He uses lots of similes, metaphors, personification, and comparisons. This read is best for people from the age of 12 to about 16 or 17 but also anyone interested in Greek mythology would be intrigued. This book was somewhat long with about 373 pages long. I think this book should be read because it shows how important it is to have people by your side and to trust those people. Works Cited

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful new book from Rick Riordan. Funniest one yet and fun as well.
*by K***T on May 9, 2016*

Growing up I read every book I could read on greek mythology-starting with Edith Hamilton's book. I also started a club in grade school just learning all the stories of both greek and roman gods and all the attendant myths. We even made up our own stories with all the characters we read about and we all had our favorites. I had a friend who after a fight with her mom decided she worshipped Apollo and told her mother she would no longer be going to bible study. I had completely forgotten this until I started reading all the Percy Jackson adventures some years ago. Children's literature today is different from my youth and I find that it teaches many worldly lessons while using the prototypes of typical stories such as the hero's journey. Witness the phenomenon of Harry Potter. Whose books I love too. However I really applaud Mr. Riordan, who obviously teaches kids as well, for crafting these stories with an obvious love of mythology while keeping them so contemporary and relatable to kids ( adults too). I always read his books hoping they also inspire readers to read the real myths and stories of ancient Greek and Roman societies, just as well as the Egyptian and Nordic mythology. For me this was the funniest one he has written yet. I don't agree that he is looking for a younger audience with this, but I do agree that the book is much more fun and interesting to read if you have read the Percy Jackson series and there are in-jokes and references you won't get otherwise. Apollo as a god is present in most of them and the reader gets to know him as sort of the god who is a bit clueless. In this book he finds some hard won personal insight in becoming a 16 year old mortal and I think in part gives life sessions in some way to adults as well as kids. For me , this book had far more sneaky references to things that really a much older reader, like myself, was going to catch. For example, the character Rhea was enormously amusing with her hippy speak and references to the sixties and other events. How many kids are going to know who Lizzy ( Elisabeth) Stanton was? Hopefully they get interested enough to look it up. I wondered how actually a 13 year old would read this book, as it is less about the story and fighting very scary monsters and insurmountable odds as in his other books, but more of a character study of a somewhat foolish and pompous character who is so infatuated with himself he doesn't give much attention to the demigods he knows and gets his comeuppance when Zeus, his dad, decides he needs to learn some lessons. The joy of this book is how Apollo now becomes someone who you quickly learn to like and laugh at and laugh with. And in fact grows up some. I'm not going to go into the storyline. Other reviewers have. It's much like many of the prior books and is setting up the story for the next books. However I highly recommend this book to anyone. I'm glad when reading the reviews I am not the only young at heart boomer reading these books. I just wish we had had them for my greek and roman myth club in 5th grade. We might have given Rick Riordan a run for his money with our stories.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by G***L on May 22, 2016*

Rick Riordan does it again! Apollo is sent to earth as a mere mortal (and not an attractive one at that, to his complete horror!) by Zeus in punishment for his part in the action of the previous books (I won't say more because of spoilers). He finds the limitations of the mortal body mortifying and longs for his godly powers back. However, it becomes clear that he is on trial and must complete a quest before he will (possibly) be re-deified, or not. Zeus isn't talking to him and neither are any of the other Olympians, so he has no idea whether his current predicament is permanent or temporary, this time. Apollo knows that he has to complete a trial because his service is claimed by a demi-god called Meg who is a daughter of Demeter/Ceres and he has to obey her. Unfortunately, Meg has issues of her own and these become apparent as the book progresses and they seek sanctuary in Camp Half Blood, where the Oracle isn't working any more and where the woods have become deadly to the resident demi-gods. I was enjoying this so much that I didn't notice the compression of the pages and actually said, 'OH NO!' out loud when I turned the last page and realised the story had come to an end and I'd have to wait gods only know how long for Rick to publish the sequel ... :( Thoroughly recommended for fans of Rick's other work on mythology and anyone who enjoys a cracking good read.

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