Review of 'Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle (Book One)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.
The Hidden Oracle is the first book in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series and I knew that after loving his Percy Jackson series and Daughter of the Deep? I would love it and I wasn't disappointed at all.
Riordan's interpretation of Apollo is perfection and I couldn't stop chuckling over how his arrogance and naivety of humanity and how the Gods treat mortals.
There is growth of course - it wouldn't be a Rick Riordan book without some education for his characters. However, Apollo still remains true to his arrogant self even when he begins to accept his own views and ideas of the mortal world and those who inhabit it and have looked to him over the millenia are twisted.
With a few old faces returning and …
Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.
The Hidden Oracle is the first book in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series and I knew that after loving his Percy Jackson series and Daughter of the Deep? I would love it and I wasn't disappointed at all.
Riordan's interpretation of Apollo is perfection and I couldn't stop chuckling over how his arrogance and naivety of humanity and how the Gods treat mortals.
There is growth of course - it wouldn't be a Rick Riordan book without some education for his characters. However, Apollo still remains true to his arrogant self even when he begins to accept his own views and ideas of the mortal world and those who inhabit it and have looked to him over the millenia are twisted.
With a few old faces returning and the introduction of a plethora of new faces to love hate and want to slap (I'm looking at you certain Roman Emperors who history hasn't been kind roo and neither should anyone at Camp Half-Blood,) The Hidden Oracle is a tale of adventure, of Gods behaving badly (at times), self-discovery and redemption for the beautiful son of Zeus who' s mortal and hating every moment of it.
That might be down to the fact he can't get his acne under control nevermind that he has his nemesis on his tale and Oracles to save.
All in a day's work for a God surely - or not if Apollo ever gets his way!
