The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

This is the third book in the series The Trials of Apollo. Apollo, or Lester, has survived his first two trials, one of which was at Camp Halfblood and the other at Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. The words that she said while she was seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil trio of Roman emperors plan to attack Camp Jupiter. While Leo, a Greek demigod ally, flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles, somewhere in the American Southwest. There is still one spark of hope in the sorrowful prophecy. Can Lester and Meg restore the third Oracle?

The thing about this series that will hook the reader into it is the plot and the character development. Riordan uses a lot of different techniques to make the stories interesting and gets a lot of people hooked into the book. I would recommend this book to almost anyone because of how the plot is built and the genre does not even matter, anyone can read this book. This book would make you feel as if you are one of the characters because of the effective use of imagery which plays an important role in the development of the story. I believe that once you read one of the books you will be wanting to know what happens in the next.

Reviewed by Aryan S., Grade 8