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The Son of Neptune

By Rick Riordan

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. The book received mostly critical acclaim, won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2011, and appeared on several bestseller lists. The Son of Neptune was first published in hardcover on October 4, 2011, by Disney-Hyperion, with a cover designed by illustrator John Rocco. After an initial hardcover printing of three million copies, the book has since been released in paperback as well as an audiobook and e-book and translated into 37 languages.

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Book

Release year

2011

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2026-06-14