

They will have a satyr companion, and Meg knows just who to call upon.

There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles-somewhere in the American Southwest. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. With the help of some demigod friends, Lester managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg. Apollo (aka Lester Papadopoulos) is now at Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. Turned into a human and banished from Olympus, Apollo must restore five ancient oracles to reclaim his godly powers. Riordan blends all these parts so well you are simply immersed in the story, laughing throughout and enjoying the ride. Rick Riordan has made his own genre with his fantastic books of mythology in the present day, crossed with ADHD teens and wit. The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. Audiobook The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan.
