I credit Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series with engendering my son’s love of reading. We read that series aloud to each other, every word, all 407,960 of them. I loved them as much as he did. He’s grown up now, but I have a youngster who loves fantasy in the house again, so I read this series, the Heroes of Olympus, which includes The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, and The Blood of Olympus), and enjoyed it immensely. Riordan has a marvelous way of bringing the Greek gods—and this time, their Roman alter egos—to life in contemporary times. They, like the original gods, are eccentric, egocentric, and all-too-human. Percy Jackson works with a six other demigods to save the world from the awakening of Gaia, the Mother Earth, who threatens to destroy mankind. Riordan’s sense of humor is on point. As a physician, my favorite line occurs when the young demigods are in the reception room of Asclepios, the god of medicine, waiting to ask a boon of him. His receptionist accosts them and demands, “Do you have insurance. Who is your primary care deity?” Rollicking good fun reading these books. Was totally able to suspend belief and go with the flow of the demigods’ quest to save the world.
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