![]() Beyond that, I’m afraid I’ll have to leave you guessing.” ![]() hmm, where have I heard that name before? Isn’t that Annabeth’s last name? Yes, it is. ![]() Beyond the title and the cover art reveal, all Riordan would say on his Myth & Mystery blog was, “Chase. The title of the first novel in the series was announced last week: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, scheduled for an October 2015 release. Having mixed up Greek gods and modern teens for young readers since the release of The Lightning Thief in 2005, with a foray into Egyptian myths, Riordan is moving north for his next project: writing a trilogy of novels inspired by Norse mythology that will be set primarily in modern-day Boston. ”She’s the compassionate one, the understanding one.” “I’ve really come to see her as the glue that holds the seven together,” he explains. And Piper McLean, “a character that some people liked to beat up on because she wasn’t overtly powerful,” Riordan says, “comes into her own” in Blood of Olympus. “I love them all so much,” he told PW before BEA, disclosing that Leo Valdez is his favorite, because he’s “such a joker, so much fun to write about.” He’s a “ham” whose voice comes “naturally” to him, Riordan explains, as he once “taught a lot of kids” like Leo. Parting is always such sweet sorrow, and for an author who has lived and breathed these seven demigods for almost five years, it’s especially bittersweet to close the book on characters about whom he speaks almost as if they were his children. Next Stop: Asgard, the Home of the Norse Gods Quoting to PW the words of the prophecy that’s been plaguing the seven demi-gods since that first volume – “To storm or fire the world must fall/an oath to keep with the last breath” – Riordan has promised that readers will discover “whose final breath we’re talking about and what oath we’re talking about.” But he warns, “As with all Greek prophecies, there are a number of ways you can interpret them.” More often than not, he adds, such a prophecy is worded so ambiguously that “it comes true in a way that you weren’t expecting” but makes complete sense. “I am aware of people posting spoilers,” he wrote on September 27, “Whether info is true or not, the posters have a special punishment waiting for them in Tartarus.” On Sunday, Riordan posted that he was “turning off social media until October 7 to avoid BoO spoilers (real or fake)” and suggested that his followers do so as well. ![]() He also has repeatedly urged anyone who “by some chance” obtained an early copy of the novel not to post spoilers online. As the laydown date approaches for the embargoed novel, Riordan has been blocking followers from his Twitter feed who have responded to his tweets by asking him to confirm or deny specific rumors they’d heard about the plot. Last week, on Twitter, Riordan revealed a few more details about the novel that whipped some of his followers into a happy frenzy of retweets of his initial tweets. It really is all about wrapping things up and coming full circle to the story we started in The Lost Hero.” You will know where all of the characters are and what’s happening to them. When asked if the title of the novel refers to the blood of any of the demigods, all he would say in answer was, “All seven demigods will have a resolution to their story, one way or another. cities and Toronto, most of those appearances also are already sold out.ĭuring a telephone interview with PW earlier this year, Riordan disclosed that in his new book, there will be a “big final confrontation” between the demigods and evil giants, but he wouldn’t say much else. Riordan will tour the country through October 15, appearing in seven more U.S. The launch, at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., is sponsored by Porter Square Books in Cambridge and sold out within days of being announced in mid-August. As anyone not trapped in Hades for the past six months must know, the fifth and final novel in the series is scheduled for release on October 7. It’s a week before the release of Blood of Olympus, and the excitement is building: readers everywhere are eager to get their hands on the last installment in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series about seven demi-gods in the modern world who are racing against time to prevent the earth goddess, Gaia, from awakening.
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