Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.
Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive.SMASH!Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.
Does truth have a moral?
Akmon squealed with delight. I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!
After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico...
A Vampire! I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronz...
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and mak...
Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line.""Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?""I lived in Kansas..So ..no
Hapi?" I asked."Why, yes, I am happy!" Hapi beamed. "I'm always happy because I'm Hapi! Are you happy?"Zia frowned up at the giant. "Does he have to be so big?"The god laughed. Immediately he shrank d...
Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. Nico, we need o have another talk about your people skills.Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble.Will turned to...
What kind of animal am I eating?' Sam wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. 'It's named Saehrimnir.''Okay, first of all, who names their dinner? I don't want to know my dinner's name. This potato...
What in the world are you thinking? She sounded pretty flustered.I try not to think, Leo admitted. It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?
Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in lo...
The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.
Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right int...
She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.
Percy, Grover said, the gods don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.