#18 in Myths & legends
The Dark Prophecy
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Dark Prophecy” lives on Apollo’s voice: vain, funny, and by this second volume noticeably more human. Some readers who enjoy his narration find the book livelier and a shade darker than the series opener, and welcome familiar faces from Riordan’s earlier books. Others would have preferred one sustained quest to a string of smaller ones that split the group, and felt the final confrontation lost force because of it.
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About the book
The Dark Prophecy is 2017 American children's fantasy action-adventure middle grade children's fiction novel based on Greco-Roman classical mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on May 2, 2017, and is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. The book and its cover art by John Rocco were first announced in 2016. It has been published in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, ebook, and large-print editions. The Dark Prophecy has been translated into seven languages from its original English.
Reading order · The Trials of Apollo
Full order & progress →- The Hidden OracleStart here
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dark ProphecyThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Burning Maze
8.28.2 / 10 - The Tyrant's Tomb
8.38.3 / 10 - The Tower of Nero
8.48.4 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 295 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 67% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Myths & legends average of 8.2. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.1 | 36 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 259 | 88% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Dark Prophecy for?
The Dark Prophecy sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 432 pages — shorter than 69% of the ranked books in Myths & legends.
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