📖 The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle

The story opens with the book's first-person narrator andprotagonist Apollo, the Olympian God of the sun, prophecies, archery, music, and healing, falling into a garbage dump in an alley in Manhattan, New York. Apollo has been cast out of heaven by his father, Zeus, who blames Apollo for helping facilitate a war between Greek and Roman demigods, the powerful offspring of Gods and mortals. As punishment, Zeus has turned Apollo into a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, complete with acne and flab. Apollo has lost all his godly powers. Apollo is mugged and beaten up in the alley by two mysterious youth who appear to have been sent by someone to specifically target him. Striking his usual stellar balance between mythological monster battles and character growth, humor, and pathos, this start to a spin-off of a spin-off series doesn't disappoint longtime Riordan fans. And you need to be a longtime fan to follow along. The storyline picks up where Heroes of Olympus leaves off and references the other books and their main characters often.

故事以本书的第一人称叙述者和主人公阿波罗开始,他是奥林匹亚太阳神、预言、射箭、音乐和治疗之神,掉进了纽约曼哈顿一条小巷的垃圾场。阿波罗被他的父亲宙斯赶出天堂,宙斯指责阿波罗帮助促进了希腊和罗马半神之间的战争,这些半神是众神和凡人的强大后代。作为惩罚,宙斯将阿波罗变成了一个凡人少年,名叫莱斯特·帕帕多普洛斯(Lester Papadopoulos),全身长满粉刺和松弛。阿波罗失去了他所有的神力。阿波罗在巷子里遭到两名神秘青年的抢劫和殴打,他们似乎是有人派来专门针对他的。在神话般的怪物战斗与角色成长、幽默和悲情之间取得了他一贯的出色平衡,这部衍生系列的衍生作品并没有让Riordan 的长期粉丝失望。你需要成为一个长期的粉丝才能跟随。故事情节从《奥林匹斯英雄》结束的地方开始,并经常引用其他书籍及其主要角色。