The Blood of Olympus Themes
Friendship
When you go to summer camp, you meet friends who last a lifetime. It happened to Charlie Brown and it happened to Percy Jackson about nine books ago. In The Blood of Olympus, Percy Jackson and his...
Sacrifice
Gods love sacrifices. We're talking everything from A to V, where "A" is animals in honor of a god and "V" is virgins tossed into volcanoes. Some people even suggest that the Parthenon itself was t...
Fate and Free Will
You can't walk through any good fantasy story without tripping over a prophecy or two. Sybil Trelawney makes one in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Eowyn fulfills one in The Return of th...
Courage
A hero is a person "who has shown unusual bravery or courage." The dictionary says so.We've got a lot of heroes in The Blood of Olympus, and not just because pretty much every character is the spaw...