The Lost Hero Characters

With the start of the spinoff series to the critically acclaimed Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, Rick Riordan did not miss a beat. Riordan is the author of over 20 #1 New York Times best-selling novels, so, clearly, he knows a thing or two about writing. Those masterful works include: The Lightning Thief, The Red Pyramid, Demigods and Magicians, and the book I am reviewing, The Lost Hero. The author is also an experienced English and history teacher of fifteen years in large school systems and private schools in San Francisco, Austin, and San Antonio. In San Antonio, he actually won the Master Teacher Award and won the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus awards for his adult mystery novels. Now, he is a full-time author and focuses primarily

Jason Grace, the true main character of the story, is by far the most complex character and is whom the novel is named after. For most of the story, he has amnesia and cannot remember the most basic of things about his life. However, Jason is still the leader of the trio on their quest due to his boldness, quick thinking, fighting skills, and the fact that he is the son of Zeus. Jason is stated to be a handsome and well-built teenager, but also very caring and loyal at the same time. A major key to this story is that he is not of Greek descent like all the other Half-Bloods that are in the original series, as he is a Roman Half-Blood, instead. Therefore, that makes things even more difficult and dangerous for him at Camp Half-Blood and on their quest, but it is unclear why that is until a major plot setter for the next book at the end of the

He has no idea who he is, and the only thing he knows is that he's on a bus to Grand Canyon with an obnoxious coach, a noisy, malicious class, and a girl holding his hand. Everyone else seems to know who he is, especially the girl, Piper, who claims to be his girlfriend, but he has no memory of who any of them are or why he's there. Once they get to the Grand Canyon, he talks to Coach Hedge to see what's going on, but he just talks about him screwing everything up with the demigods and about him being the "package" he was told to wait