Plot ġ0 months after Percy Jackson's defense of Mount Olympus in The Last Olympian, Percy finds himself alone and on the run from monsters in northern California without his memories. Along with this, two chapters were released prior to the book's launch: one was put on Riordan's website and another read out by Riordan on Percy's birthday, August 18. The video includes pictures of a black haired boy with a bow and arrow in his hands who is later revealed to be Frank Zhang, a blonde-haired boy holding a teddy bear later revealed as Octavian, a girl with black hair wearing gold armor and a purple cloak sitting on a throne flanked by a gold and a silver canine creature, both with red eyes, who was revealed on Rick Riordan's blog to be Reyna, and another girl riding a horse named Hazel Levesque. On August 8, 2011, Rick Riordan released a video giving more information about the book and its characters. On May 26, 2011, Riordan released both the cover art and the first chapter for The Son of Neptune confirming that Percy would play a role in the book. By the end of the book, he said that readers would have a good idea where the second book is going. The author hinted that the answer would be revealed as Jason's quest progressed. In an interview by Scholastic with Vikram Sastry for The Lost Hero, Riordan was questioned about the whereabouts of Percy Jackson. After an initial hardcover printing of three million copies, the book has since been released in paperback as well as an audiobook and e-book, and has been translated into 37 languages. The Son of Neptune was first published in hardcover on October 4, 2011, by Disney-Hyperion with a cover designed by illustrator John Rocco.
The book received mostly critical acclaim, won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2011, and appeared on several bestseller lists.
The novel is narrated in third-person, switching between the points of view of Percy, Frank, and Hazel. The story follows the adventures of amnesiac Percy Jackson, a demigod son of Neptune also known as Poseidon, as he meets a camp of Roman demigods and goes to Alaska with his new friends Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang to free the Greek god of death, Thanatos, and help save the world from Gaea, the earth goddess. It is the second book in The Heroes of Olympus series, preceded by The Lost Hero and followed by The Mark of Athena. The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy- adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
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