#53 in Adventure
The Son of Neptune
- 513
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
The second Heroes of Olympus book brings Percy Jackson back and is the better for it. Some readers find the opening slow, since he starts with no memory, but once the quest is under way it is hard to put down. The Roman camp is a fresh setting, the new companions hold their own beside him, and the reveals land. Light, funny adventure for younger readers, best read after the earlier books.
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About the book
The Son of Neptune is a 2011 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 is the second book in The Heroes of Olympus series, preceded by The Lost Hero and followed by The Mark of Athena. The story follows the adventures of amnesiac Percy Jackson, a demigod son of Neptune, also known as Poseidon, as he meets a camp of Roman demigods and goes to Alaska with his new friends Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang to free the Greek god of death, Thanatos, and help save the world from Gaea, the earth goddess. The novel is narrated in the third-person, switching between the points of view of Percy, Frank, and Hazel.
Reading order · The Heroes of Olympus
Full order & progress →- The Lost HeroStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - The Son of NeptuneThis book
8.48.4 / 10 - The Mark of Athena
8.58.5 / 10 - The House of Hades
8.78.7 / 10 - The Blood of Olympus
8.48.4 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 1,244 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 8.4 — the Adventure average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 123 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 1.1K | 90% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Son of Neptune for?
The Son of Neptune sits on the Middle grade shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 8–12. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 513 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Adventure.
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