Sentence Sneak Peek - The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan

The first sentence from each chapter of The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Received from the publisher for review

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

“MY NAME IS APOLLO.”

“I HAD NOT BEEN STOMPED so badly since my guitar contest against Chuck Berry in 1957.”

“AS WE TRUDGED up Madison Avenue, my mind swirled with questions: Why hadn’t Zeus given me a winter coat?”

“ANOTHER THING I have never understood: How can you mortals live in such tiny places?”

“SALLY JACKSON was a witch to rival Circe.”

“MUCH TO MY DISAPPOINTMENT, the Jacksons did not have a spare bow or quiver to lend me.”

“NOSOI?”

“I WILL NOT SAY my life passed before my eyes.”

“I SIGHED WITH RELIEF.”

“I DREAMED I WAS DRIVING the sun chariot across the sky.”

“MEG GAWKED.”

“I WAS NOT IN THE MOOD TO CELEBRATE.”

“IT WAS ALL HARLEY’S FAULT.”

“NO ONE KNEW WHAT TO MAKE OF MEG.”

“I WISHED I HAD A DOCTOR’S NOTE.”

“NOTE TO SELF: trying to reveal important information just before a three-legged death race is not a good idea.”

“AT LEAST WE DID NOT LAND IN PERU.”

“HAD I EVER BEEN SO TERRIFIED?”

“THE ONLY BIOHAZARDS we encountered were vegan cupcakes.”

“RACHEL ELIZABETH DARE was one of my favorite mortals.”

“I WAS A DRAMATIC GOD.”

“SUN GODS ARE NOT GOOD at sleeping during the day, but somehow I managed a fitful nap.”

“WAS I RECKLESS to rush toward such volatile nature gods?”

“MYRMEKES SHOULD BE high on your list of monsters not to fight.”

“I STUMBLED THROUGH the glade, shouting Meg’s name.”

“MY HEAD WOUND MUST have tasted like Wagyu beef.”

“WAKE,” SAID A VOICE.”

“MEG THRASHED IN HER GOO CASE.”

“I HAD NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY to see a killing field.”

“I HAD BEEN BETRAYED BEFORE.”

“MEG’S RESOLVE may have been wavering, but Peaches’s was not.”

“OH, THIS PART IS DIFFICULT TO TELL.”

“THE TREES WERE using their inside voices.”

“AUSTIN HAD FREED THE OTHER PRISONERS.”

“EVEN MY SUPERNATURAL POWERS of description fail me.”

“SCATTERING WAS THE EASY PART.”

“I WAS TOO SURPRISED TO SPEAK.”

“THE PLAGUE SPREAD.”

“THE DEMIGODS HAD TO TAKE NUMBERS.”