Welcome to my sixth book review, today I will be summarizing the first book of the heroes of Olympus series: the lost hero.
Jason has lost all his memories and does not
even know his name. He wakes up on a bus, he was sure he wasn’t on a moment
before. He was holding Piper’s hand, he thinks she’s his girlfriend. Most
likely the boy in front of them is Jason’s best friend because he is talking
his ear off. They tell Jason that they’re problematic teenagers who got sent to
Wilderness School for reformation. The only person who hasn’t seen Jason before
is the supervisor, coach hedge, everyone thinks Jason has been part of their
class all year.
A group of ventis attacks the campers, Jason fights
them off and saves Piper from death, in the process displaying his ability to
fly. Coach Hedge is taken by a storm spirit. Soon after two demigods, Annabeth and Butch, arrive on
winged horses and take Jason, Leo, and Piper to Camp Half-Blood. Annabeth and
butch are disappointed they found these guys instead of their missing friend, Percy.
Once at Camp, Leo finds out he’s a son of
Hephaestus, and Piper finds out she is a daughter of Aphrodite. These
identities explain long-standing questions for them. When Leo was a little boy,
he got exposed to fire and somehow didn’t burn, he later found out he could
create fire, which is a trait some children of Hephaestus have. Piper has been
able to persuade people with no effort for as long as she could remember, she
once persuaded someone into letting her take a BMW from the dealership, it’s
called charmspeaking, a gift from Aphrodite.
Leo has
been getting visions of his Tia Callida. Piper has been having a strange voice in
her head that won’t stop telling her to betray her friends and save her father,
she didn’t know her father was in danger. As Jason, Piper, and Leo tell Chiron
about their visions and voices, they realize that Hera has been captured. She‘s trying to
send a message to Jason to save her. She reveals that she was the one who took
away Jason’s memories, but she does not reveal who her captor is.
When the campers gather around the campfire,
Chiron reveals that Jason was claimed long ago. Jason announces himself as the
son of Jupiter, but Jupiter was roman, not Greek, he was at the Greek camp.
Rachel, the camp oracle, reveals that the Great Prophecy has begun. The
prophecy states that a group of seven demigods must band together to save the
world. She expands on the prophecy, Jason must go with a dove and a forge to
save Hera, which seems to refer to Leo and piper. Leo uses his engineering
skills to repair a broken bronze dragon that he names Festus, they use Festus
as transportation on their journey.
The three begin their journey at the home of
Boreus, god of the North Wind, where they met his daughter Khino. Aeolus, the
god of wind told Boreus to kill all demigods on sight, but he lets them go,
only if they agree to capture the venti and
deliver them to Aeolus.
They continued their journey; they have to stop
several times because Festus keeps breaking down. Every time they stop, they
face a new challenge like, a few cyclops, Medea, the mortal villain come back
to life, and King Midas, who was also dead and resurrected. Piper rethinks the
idea of betraying her friends after King Midas tells them the giant Enceladus
is the one who captured her father.
During their encounter with Medea, they retrieve
the venti and coach Hedge. After escaping king Midas, they get in a rumble with
some wolves but luckily are saved by the Artemis hunters and Jason’s sister,
Thalia Grace. The hunters and Thalia bring them to Aeolus’s floating fortress.
Aeolus is interested in helping them until a strange female voice in his head
convinces him not to. They get ejected by an air chute, but Aphrodite rescues
them. When rescuing them she tells piper that their true enemy is Gaea, mother
earth. She’s the one who is resurrecting the monsters that keep disrupting
their quest.
Leo, Jason,
Piper, and coach hedge defeat Enceladus and rescue Tristan, Piper’s dad, with a
bit of help from Zeus. Coach hedge takes care of Tristan while the demigods
finish their quest. They reunite with the Artemis hunters in San Francisco at
Wolf house. When they arrive, the hunters are already battling ogres and snow
spirits. Khione, the goddess of snow they met earlier, reveals that she empoisoned
Hera to assist Gaea.
Leo and
piper free Hera while Jason battles the giant Pophyrion. When Hera is freed,
she helps Jason by using her power to scare away the giant. During the battle, Jason
almost dies, but Piper brings him back with charmspeak. Hera brings Jason,
piper, and Leo back to camp.
Once at
Camp, they’re relieved that their quest is over, however, they know there’s more
battle in store. each character arrives more empowered. However, they also know
there is more battle in store. They know now that there are to groups of demigods,
greek and Roman. Hera took Jason's memory so he would forget his roman heritage and
help the greeks. Now, the seven greatest Greek and Roman demigods must band together
to defeat a common enemy. Before they start this quest to defeat Gaea they must
find Percy Jackson who Jason assumes was sent to the Roman camp.
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