The Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus, The Book 2)

This is a Christmas gift I purchased for my son, along with multiple other Rick Riordan books. Two of the books, this one and another titled Percy Jackson & The Olympians The Demigod Files were shipped together. I peaked in the box to see that it was the books and quickly tucked them away for wrapping later. Today I pulled them out and I am sadly disappointed in the way the book edges were cut and Amazon would allow this purchase to be shipped like this! Of course not thinking I would have an issue with a books pages not being cut I have missed the return deadline and am left to gift less than satisfactory books. I am sure Rick Riordan wouldn’t be too happy with his book production. My son is such a fan of this author it just saddens me to see a product from Amazon like this!

The begin is about Luke and Thalia following a goat XD. Then they get trapped in hal's house... The middle of the story is when anabeth and Percy retriving Hermes staff back to him.Thats the only thing reason why I put 4 stars. Mr.Riordan you did a nice job on this book :) At the end the part Son of magic was dull not enough verbs,nouns or details. I can tell its very rushed. Yeah and the price 10 bucks. Thats a lot:(… Also can you make all your books a little cheaper. Lastly I am reading the Son of Neptune(Poseidon). That book will determine if I will continue the series.So far very good.

Riordan gives fans of his Greek and Roman series some great new material in the four stories presented here.In the first, Luke and Thalia must find a way to escape from a trap set for demigods. Or else they will be dinner. And how did they get into this trap? Lured by a goat. A goat who can dispense ice and Pepsi products! Hilarious!Percy just wants to spend time with his girlfriend Annabeth. But he is coopted into finding Hermes' lost staff. Stolen by a monster of course. A monster who is intent on making profits off of knock-offs rather than stealing originals. Hilarity ensues.At the center of the third tale is a table who ran away because he was polished with Windex rather than Lemon Pledge. And now maybe the entire laboratory will explode because the Argo II needs its syncopator. Unless Jason and Piper can help Leo find Buford, the run-away table - who happens to have the syncopator in one of its drawers. Along the way they encounter drunk underage maenads intent on finding Lord Dionysus. More hilarity ensues.The final tale asks the question, what happened to the demigods who fought on the side of Kronos after the events of The Last Olympian? The story gives good answers about Mist and why monsters can smell heroes. Written by Riordan's son 16yo son, it doesn't contain the same sense of humor or whimsy as the other stories. And while it's not a bad story, it doesn't make one smile like the other stories do. The tale is about an internecine battle between two children of Hecate. Still, it does not draw away from the awesomeness of the other three stories.

The demigods are as diverse as us mere mortals, and so are their adventures. In this companion to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus series' Riordan Riordan gives us a few sneak peaks back in time to fill in gaps around the other stories, and his son, Haley Riordan, takes the groundbreaking series his father started as his own bedtime stories and gives us his first story set in the world of demigods."The Diary of Luke Castellan"Luke is a character we see as a bad seed, but there has to be more to him. In this diary excerpt, we see Luke and Thalia fighting for their lives out in the world against the monsters who hunt them. What they don't expect is to find another kind of demigod who could be their very undoing."Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes"The gods can be many thing, but one thing they can be counted on for is to need the demigods to do their dirty work. All Percy wants to do is spend time with Annabeth, his newly anointed girlfriend, but Hermes has another plan for their time, and of course, it involves one bizarre and cantankerous monster!"Leo Valdez and the Quest for Buford"As a son of Hephaestus, Leo is an amazing tinkerer. Unfortunately, by failing to properly care for a magical end table, he may have lost the key to stopping certain disaster (Windex is NOT the same as Lemon Pledge!). Luckily, his friend would never let him fail."Son of Magic"Claymore doesn't have time for questions, and certainly not questions that will cause him as much trouble as Alabaster's question. As the leading expert on death, Alabaster hopes Claymore can help him stop the evil woman who is coming after them, but he has no idea how dangerous it is to even know Alabaster.This was a cute selection of short stories separated by word jumbles and quizzes to test your knowledge of the Greek vs. Roman gods. The short stories were not necessary for understanding the rest of the series', but they are certainly fun for the Olympus buff. The final story, "Son of Magic," is interestingly written by Riordan's son, Haley Riordan. Before the story, in a short note, he explains the Percy Jackson sagas began as bedtime stories to his son, and Haley was given the opportunity to write a story for this book. To be honest, that story has a very different tone from Rick's stories, which you have to be prepared for (it is very dark!), but I was quite impressed. It is a different kind of story, but the idea that the original audience for these stories delivered this contribution at the age of 16 is pretty impressive! Of course, he doesn't have the same abilities of his father, but if he keeps writing like this, he will get there some day!

I enjoyed this second collection of short story in demigod diaries.You get some back story for Luke Castellan.And some of these story are reference in Hero's of Olympus.I really liked Haley's Riordan short story Son of Magic.And full color illustration of some of the Hero's of Olympus.Note:( The interview with Hermes staff is in Demigod Diaries and not in Demigod files.Sorry)

My 12 years old daughter finished reading and collecting all the Harry Potter series. Percy Jackson is her new obsession. Given the the libraries are closed and I want to encourage her to pick up a book and read (no screen reading please), I embarked on collecting the entire series. This is just another book and I am delighted to see her face light up upon seeing a book and not just another updates from a YouTube influencer.

As an Amazon customer, I was really excited to see that we get to see through the eyes of all the main characters in HOO and some from PJO. Or, at least, that's what I thought. I got a free sample, just in case, and was pretty sure The Demigod Diaries has all the demigods' diaries, including the 7 prophetic half-bloods. However, when purchased, the book turned out to only have 3 demigod diaries, not to mention Luke, Percy and Leo's. I really wanted Reyna and Nico diaries because I wanted to know more about them, especially Reyna.Luke's diary.... to be honest, I think we were already showed enough about him, Thalia and Annabeth's story from Titan's Curse. Meh. I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Percy, but we had his point of view in LT, SOM, TC, BOTL, LO, SON, MOA and HOH. (aka. the whole of the PJO series plus Mark of Athena, Son of Netune and House of Hades. It'd be nice to have a different POV for a change.Dear old Leo. McShizzle. I hate how the story is set when he, Piper and Jason are at CHB before the Giant War begins. I wish Hazel, Annabeth, Frank, Reyna, Percy, Nico, Will, Thalia, Grover and Calypso could be in it, like the whole gang.I loved it a anyways!!!!!!!!

Ordinarily I don't like short stories. They end too abruptly for my liking. But because these were part of a series that I adore, they are well worth reading. My favourite story is 'Leo Valdez and the quest for Buford'. Wonderful. Leo is my favourite of the demigods, he's so funny and incredibly brave. The only problem is the plot hole. Its stated very clearly that its nearly Christmas when Buford runs away and Leo says he's been working on the Argo 2 for two months. That would mean Leo started building the ship sometime in October. This isn't possible because Leo wasn't claimed until December and didnt start building the Argo 2 until after he, Jason and Piper returned from their quest, which ended on the 21st December. The plot hole doesn't detract from the story but it is a minor irritant.

Hii guys!Today i will be reviewing heroes of Olympus :The demigod diaries!Included pics too!.This book is a good supplementary book for the heroes of Olympus series..The series was a great one and i think that after harry potter the Percy Jackson series and heroes of Olympus series were the best ones! Rick is a great writer!Love his writings 😍The short stories are good but you need to read the heroes of Olympus series to understand itWe have one story written by Rick's son who had advised his father to start writing and now he is one of the best modern writers. His son suffered from AHAD and dyslexia and in Rick's stories percy also has the same disease..all over good :)I love the bookmarks provided by amazon!!!!!Thks for reading my review... Hope it helped :)Please click on the helpful button if you liked my review!

Answered a few questions but openned up more questions, hopefully future b ooks bring the answers.I started at beginning of lockdown with 1st book, now read 16 books got more to go, well done Rick Riordan 😁

From my grandson - This book is so good it's one of my favourites out of the amazing rick riordian books and I think rick riordian should write more books about the Greek mythology I think they are the most popular books out of all rick riordian s books but are certainly my favourite.