Quiz: Which Rick Riordan Series is Right for You?

Speaking of Riordan’s series, one of them, incidentally, is going to be your reading assignment to get you all caught up on your new life. And extra good news: If it’s The Trials of Apollo, you’ll have a brand-new book to read in May when the series’ second installment, The Dark Prophecy, comes out. (Squee!)

If you got mostly A’s, it’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

Based on Greek mythology, Riordan’s first middle-grade series is a classic place to start. The series is told from the perspective of Perseus Jackson — Percy, as his friends and legions of readers know him. Everyone’s favorite sardonic demigod begins as a struggling student living in New York with his single mom before he discovers his true heritage as son of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, and embarks on various quests toward completion of the Great Prophecy. Plus once you get through the five books in this series, you have its follow-up The Heroes of Olympus to delve into, and Rick Riordan’s newest addition to the series The Chalice of the Gods to look forward to.

If you got mostly B’s, it’s The Kane Chronicles. 

Get ready to dive deep into Egyptian mythology with Riordan’s adventure trilogy narrated by siblings Carter and Sadie Kane—the pair are powerful magicians, having descended from pharaohs Narmer and Ramses the Great. After their father, a brilliant Egyptologist, inadvertently unleashes a terrible Egyptian god, the children are forced to run for their lives. The siblings soon discover that other gods are awakening, and they must be stopped. Prepare to race through this stellar trilogy.

If you got mostly C’s, it’s Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard.

Looks like you’d be most interested in Riordan’s take on Norse mythology—woo-hoo, Vikings! As the first book’s description ominously states, “Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die.” And while Magnus Chase, who discovers that he’s the son of a Norse god, does make a fatal decision, the end of his life is only the beginning of his many adventures to come and your journey through the three books in this awesome series.

If you got mostly D’s, it’s The Trials of Apollo.

“How do you punish an immortal?” Riordan ominously asks in the description of the first book in the series. “By making him human.” Zeus is the punisher here, and his son Apollo, god of the sun, is on the receiving end after angering his pops. But rather than being sent to his room, the 4,000-year-old deity is cast down to Earth, landing in New York City as a regular teenage boy without any of his godly powers. Apollo quickly realizes he can’t manage alone and heads to Camp Half-Blood.