Rick Riordan Announces New The Trials of Apollo Series

“How do you punish an immortal?” Riordan ominously asks in The Hidden Oracle’s description. “By making him human.”
Naturally, Zeus is the punisher here, and his son Apollo, god of the sun, is on the receiving end after angering dear old dad. 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. He now has a hefty to-do list: 1) learn how to survive, 2) find a way to get back in Zeus’s favor, and 3) dodge his many god, monster, and mortal enemies—NBD. Apollo quickly realizes he can’t do all of this alone and heads to the place so familiar to the legions of Percy Jackson superfans: Camp Half-Blood.
“As I explained on tour, the idea came to me while writing Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, because Apollo had been turned mortal twice before when he got on Zeus’ bad side,” Riordan writes on his blog. “The first novel has been so much fun to write!”

Told from Apollo’s first-person perspective, the new series will also feature all of the characters from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series. Fans will recall that Apollo popped up in The Titan’s Curse and The Last Olympian in the Percy Jackson series, and in The Blood of Olympus from The Heroes of Olympus series.
And if Riordan’s previous funny, irreverant narrators Percy Jackson and Magnus Chase are any example, we imagine readers will be getting to know Apollo in a whole new, totally likable way as he learns to make his way in a modern world with the help of some new friends at Camp Half-Blood.
And yes, we know May 3, 2016 seems like an eternity away, but The Hidden Oracle is available right now for pre-order. And fans can put these next several months to good use by revisiting Riordan’s vast library to do some (re)reading up on Apollo and the rest of the mythical gang.
And rest assured that Riordan is working hard for you, the fans—and because he loves writing the books just as much as his readers love reading his work.
“It’s going to be a busy year of writing for me,” he writes. “Fortunately, I absolutely love my job and I am having a blast with both [the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series and the new The Trials of Apollo series]!”
Are you excited to read The Hidden Oracle?