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Peaches is a karpos, a creature whom Meg befriended. ( Rhea is Apollo’s hippie grandmother and patron of the Grove of Dodona.) Meg McCaffrey is a demigod (a daughter of Demeter), Lester’s master until he gets back his Apollo-ness, and one of Lester, er, I mean, Apollo’s better friends. He carries a combat ukulele and his bow and arrow, including the Arrow of Dodona that speaks in Shakespearean rhyme. Lester Papadopoulos used to be Apollo until his dad, Zeus, got mad and took away his godhood. He’s lucky that his new friends are so good-hearted, as they slowly work their way into Lester’s heart and graces, befriending and saving by example. With the first Oracle saved, Lester has left Camp Half-Blood and is winging his way across America with heroes who think they’re his friends. I want to live in a Waystation! I love how creative it is and accessible, although I do wish it were handier in the gardens and stables. He certainly took advantage of it with Apollo’s “speeches”. Riordan must have had a ball with the blemmyae’s need to be polite. Riordan continues that mighty dent in the heroes’ ability to communicate and plan in cutting out all communication, let alone depriving Apollo of his abilities as a god, lol, so there is plenty of action as Apollo interacts with “friends”, friends, family, and the enemy. Friends-wise, Apollo needs Leo and Cal…and anyone else who’ll step up, for despite his hurried training in The Hidden Oracle, 1, Apollo still thinks too slowly. Oh, man, I’m cracking up all over again, as I read Calypso’s chorus as Lester starts storytelling, trying to gain time to formulate a plan, to escape. And in his own way, slowly as the story progresses, Apollo begins to question his past actions in his first person protagonist point-of-view. That Apollo…he is so incredibly obnoxious and all about music, singers, performers, and its genres through the ages…poetry…and how fabulous he is. On the other hand, Emmie and Jo have a beautiful relationship that Riordan doesn’t push at us.

He’s not picky, and it is so in character for him. There are gay references in The Dark Prophecy, primarily Apollo’s attraction to anything gorgeous. It’s quite contradictory and very laugh-worthy. It’s a story of regrets as well as self-reflection…and a reflection that goes both ways, as Apollo manages to see where he went “wrong” as well as how anyone could possibly think he was anything less than fabulous. (This could be a good talking-point for parents.) His whinging back and forth between his lack of godly abilities and the usual torments of being a sixteen-year-old with zits, creates such a dichotomy between a god and a human teen, and all in Apollo’s self-centered view that you can’t help laughing. Apollo/Lester cracks me up with his selfishness. So, for all my whining about the cover, this was great. In 2017, The Dark Prophecy was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Middle Grade & Children’s.

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Second in The Trials of Apollo mythic fantasy series (and seventh in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians universe) for middle-grade readers and revolving around the punished Apollo, er, Lester. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Red Pyramid, The Lost Hero, Cold Springs, The Throne of Fire, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The Serpent's Shadow, House of Hades, The Blood of Olympus, The Hidden Oracle, The Sword of Summer, The Hammer of Thor, The Ship of the Dead Mythic fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Disney-Hyperion on and has 414 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

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