The Blood of Olympus POV's!

I recently got an email from Nidhi, one of you readers, asking me to do a post regarding POVs for The Blood of Olympus. The email came as follows:

Hey James! Can u Plz do an analysis on who will be the opening POV in
The Blood Of Olympus!!!

Well, I figured in addition to that, I'd make a post regarding everything I think will happen in regards to The Blood of Olympus POVs.

Firstly, I think it is obvious that all of the seven will have a POV. Rick did this in The House of Hades, and it would only make sense for him to do it in The Blood of Olympus. And I really like this, because, as I said before, he didn't have an order to it. In The House of Hades, the POVs weren't in any specific order, and that was great, as we got to see the action when we needed to without having to read through a meaningless POV.

Now, the real question is, will anyone else have a POV. And, as much as I hope I am wrong, I'm going to have to assume not. Seven POVs is a lot for a book, and I just don't think he can squeeze in any others..But if he gave us just a little Nico action, I wouldn't be complaining :D

Now, in regards to the actual question at hand in the email, it's difficult to assume who is going to be the opening...but we can make [educated] guesses. The real problem is, The House of Hades didn't end on a cliffhanger, in reality. The seven are traveling to Greece, and the three (Hedge, Nico, Reyna) are on their way to Camp Half-Blood. So really, anyone could be that first POV. One thing we could do is look at who had opening POV's in the other four books:

The Lost Hero: Jason
The Son of Neptune: Percy
The Mark of Athena: Annabeth
The House of Hades: Hazel

Actually, I never really noticed that before...all of the titles kind of link to who the first POV is (I wonder if that is a coincidence)..The Lost Hero could represent either Jason or Percy, and Jason gets the POV..The Son of Neptune obviously refers to Percy, and he gets the POV..The Mark of Athena refers to Annabeth and she gets the POV..and Hazel, being a daughter of Pluto/Hades gets the POV in The House of Hades.

So, I guess, one could play on that a little, and say the first POV in The Blood of Olympus will be someone who dies (one of the bloods of Olympus)..

However, I think the first POV will go to Leo..I'm not sure why, but I think he's going to be playing a major role in The Blood of Olympus (with Calypso and all), and I think he's going to start us off..I guess we'll have to wait and see (until probably when The Staff of Serapis e-book standalone comes out, as that's how we got The House of Hades preview with The Son of Sobek).

Thanks Nidhi!

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Playing with Titles!

I was bored, so I started playing around with the titles of the books...you can make some fun things out of them, for example...

THE	LIGHTNING	THIEF
THE	SEA	OF	MONSTERS
THE	TITAN’S	CURSE
THE	BATTLE	OF	THE	LABYRINTH
THE	LAST	OLYMPIAN
THE	LOST	HERO
THE	SON	OF	NEPTUNE
THE	MARK	OF	ATHENA
THE	HOUSE	OF	HADES
THE	BLOOD	OF	OLYMPUS

 "The Sea Curse. The Olympian Lost. The Mark of Olympus." 

And then, when you become a little creative, you can make something up, like...

The sea is cursed as Poseidon broke his swear on the River Styx not to have children. Hera/Juno was lost, and had to be saved. Gaea has set her mark on Olympus.

Or, another one, just using The Heroes of Olympus series...

THE	LOST	HERO
THE	SON	OF	NEPTUNE
THE	MARK	OF	ATHENA
THE	HOUSE	OF	HADES
THE	BLOOD	OF	OLYMPUS

"The Son of Hades. The Blood of Olympus."

Then, getting a little creative...

Nico is the son of Hades; will he be the blood of Olympus?

Obviously, all of these things are unintentional by Rick, but there still fun, plus I don't believe Nico is going to die (I'm sure I've said that) ...

I don't know...tell me if you find any good ones...Thanks for Reading!

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What's Coming in 2014?

I've done this a few times before, and have always had positive feedback, so I figured I'd do it again!
(this was supposed to be posted yesterday...but I forgot...sorry)



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Minor Release Dates
April 8, 2014: New covers available in paperback editions of PJO series
Early May: New covers available in paperback boxed edition of PJO series
Unknown Date: New covers available in hardcover editions of PJO series

Since ppl are asking: the new PJO covers will be available starting April 8 (US market) for all five paperbacks. Boxed sets = early May.
— Rick Riordan (@camphalfblood) February 20, 2014

No date yet for hardcovers w/new cover art. Stay tuned. And again, I only get info for the US market.
— Rick Riordan (@camphalfblood) February 20, 2014

The Last Olympian New Cover!

Every day (this week) a new cover was posted on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page, and I was here to relay them to you!

Today, The Last Olympian cover was posted...and here it is! (side by side with the original cover)

And, to finish off the panoramic picture the covers make...(click to enlarge)

And, even the backs connect!

By popular request, tomorrow, I will be posting countdowns to everything important that you need to know about!

The Battle of the Labyrinth New Cover!

Every day (this week) a new cover will be posted on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page, and I will be here to relay them to you!

Yesterday, The Battle of the Labyrinth cover was posted...and here it is! (side by side with the original cover)

And, to continue with the idea that they are all connected!

I don't know, I'm not too impressed with this one...at first glance, I thought it was awesome, but then I thought about it, and who is that in the back...Typhon? (actually, it looks like Kronos from The Sea of Monsters movie) Because I think the idea of Percy standing of Kronos' coffin is a much better representation of the story...

Stay tuned tomorrow (or maybe later today) for The Last Olympian!

The Titan's Curse New Cover!

Every day (this week) a new cover will be posted on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page, and I will be here to relay them to you!

Yesterday, The Titan's Curse cover was posted...and here it is! (side by side with the original cover)

And, to continue with the idea that they are all connected!

This is the first cover so far where it actually is clear to me that the old one is better -- oh well...

Stay tuned tomorrow (or maybe later today) for The Battle of the Labyrinth!

The Sea of Monsters New Cover!

Every day (this week) a new cover will be posted on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page, and I will be here to relay them to you!

Yesterday, The Sea of Monsters cover was posted...and here it is! (side by side with the original cover)

Also, has anyone else noticed something about the two covers posted so far? How about if I show you this..?

Looks like when connected, they are going to form a giant picture! It looks to me like the right side of The Sea of Monsters cover could be a wing of Blackjack (who appears in The Titan's Curse cover). Guess we'll have to wait and see!

Stay tuned tomorrow (or maybe later today) for The Titan's Curse!


Also, you may notice that I'm making some minor changes to my blog layout -- nothing too big, but I like to change a few things here and there!

The Lightning Thief New Cover!

If you didn't catch my earlier post last week, John Rocco is re-illustrating the covers for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books.

Every day (this week) a new cover will be posted on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page, and I will be here to relay them to you!

Yesterday, The Lightning Thief cover was posted...and here it is! (side by side with the original cover)

Of course, we'll all be partial to what we have grown to love, but you've got to admit: that new one does look awesome!

Stay tuned tomorrow (or maybe later today) for The Sea of Monsters!

Also, if you haven't heard yet, and/or haven't read my blog post...The Staff of Serapis will be out on April 8! For more information, visit my blog post (HERE), or Rick Riordan's blog post (HERE)

The Staff of Serapis!

HUGE NEWS!!

Rick Riordan just announced (well not just I guess) that The Staff of Serapis will be released with the paperback edition of The Mark of Athena, on April 8!

Yes, you are probably thinking correctly: This is a short-story crossover between Annabeth and Sadie!

If you want to read more about it, go here: http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-staff-of-serapis.html

If you want to read an excerpt from it (who wouldn't) go here: http://rickriordan.com/Files/Documents/StaffofSerapis_excerpt_trade_pbk.pdf

More about this shall come in the future, but I have to go read that excerpt!

New Book Covers!

In case you didn't know, John Rocco is redesigning the covers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians -- they are all going to be posted next week (one per day) on the Percy Jackson Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/PercyJackson)...

So far, sneak peaks have been posted for The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse (which you can see below)...








That's all for now! -- Thanks for Reading!

Frank's Life Line!

We all know that Frank's life line has a chance to play a significant role in The Blood of Olympus -- he can die if a tiny piece of firewood burns up. Well, I'm not sure if many people know this, but Rick based this off of a Greek Myth...

I looked for the simplist version I could find, and came up with this:

Meleager

Meleager was the son of Oeneus and Althaea, king and queen of Calydon. When he was born, the three Moirae (Fates) announced to his mother that Meleager would live only so long as a brand of burning upon the hearth remained unconsumed. Althaea snatched the brand from the fire and kept it in a safe place. Meleager grew up into a valiant warrior who was seemingly invulnerable to harm, and married Celopatra, the daughter of the hero Idas.

When the Calydonian boar was ravaging the countryside, his father set him to lead the band of heroes who went forth to hunt the beast. Despite his marriage to Celopatra, Meleager was in love with Atalanta, the only woman among the hunting party, and he rejoiced when she was the first to wound the boar; he then competed the kill himself, and awarded the boar's hide to her, on the ground that she had drawn first blood. However, Meleager's maternal uncles, Toxeus and Plexippus, were enraged that hte prize of the hunt should be awarded to a woman and tried to take it for themselves. Meleager fought with them and killed them.

Upon hearing the news of her brothers' deaths, Althaea removed the half-consumed brand from its hiding place and cast it upon the fire. Meleager writhed in agony, finally dying when the brand was burned entirely into ash.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/meleager.html

If you would like more information on Meleager, just Google it, and there will be more available. Now, the reason I am bringing this up...

Rick has made a big point of saying that "history repeats itself," with the Titan War, followed by the rise of Giants, etc. Well, basically Meleager died at the hands of his mother. While Frank's mother is dead, maybe we could assume that it will repeat itself in the sense that Frank will die. Now, who has came to Frank and appeared as a motherly figure before?

First, we can look at Juno/Hera...she was the one who warned of Frank's life line, and she has looked upon Frank (along with the other Heroes) for help many times.

But also, maybe we can look at Gaea in this sense...of course Gaea isn't a motherly figure, but maybe the way it repeats itself is that the Hero dies at the hand of a significant woman in his life..Gaea is clearly significant in Frank's life (just for different reasons).

So, I just wanted to bring that up...let me know what you guys think...

Thanks for Reading!