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The Trials of Apollo · Trials of Apollo, book 1

The Hidden Oracle

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Apollo lands in New York as a mortal teenager and has to find out who silenced the Oracle

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

Apollo lands in a New York dumpster. Zeus turned him into a mortal teenager, Lester Papadopoulos, and he barely remembers why. A girl named Meg McCaffrey saves him from two muggers and claims him as her servant. The two head to Camp Half-Blood with help from Percy, where the Oracle of Delphi can no longer give prophecies and campers keep vanishing in the woods. Apollo and Meg uncover a secret company that wants to control the world's oracles, and Apollo has to complete trials to return to Olympus. The first-person narration is the god himself, and the chapter titles are bad haiku.

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What changed on screen

  1. Behind the scenesThe idea came from a guide

    Riordan says he thought of a mortal Apollo while writing Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, when he found two myths of Zeus punishing the god. Chapter titles are bad haiku, because Apollo is the god of poetry.

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  2. Behind the scenesStraight to the top

    The book sold over 62,000 copies in its first week and ranked No. 1 on the New York Times list. Barnes & Noble bundled in a letter from Apollo to Zeus.

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