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My First Books Were the Heroes of Olympus Series Essay

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Do you remember that first series of books you got into? Well mine was The Heroes of Olympus series. The books are written by the author Rick Riordan. The most recent book I’ve read was “The Son of Neptune”, the genre is fantasy and it’s about Greek and Roman mythology. The setting is the western coast of North America, in modern times. Percy, Frank, and Hazel are the three main characters in this story; they go through a lot to show us the main theme, sacrifice. After sleeping for months Percy awoke running, he was running away from two gorgons, Stheno and Euryal. He had to sliced them up countless times with his blade, riptide, but somehow they seemed to keep reappearing out of their ashes. He had no other choice but to run, because…show more content…
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