Review: The Tyrant's Tomb

The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well, we've had well over a year to properly process all that happened in The Burning Maze, and now Uncle Rick returns with the penultimate part of Apollo's adventures in The Tyrant's Tomb. The stakes were already high enough in Book 3, with that huge and unexpected major character death, but here, Apollo himself is in greater danger than ever. Maybe if he weren't still stuck in a mortal body, things would be better - but when a cut from a particularly nasty Greek-mythological ghoul starts developing an infection that resists all attempts to cure it, Apollo's days are looking pretty numbered. And the most important number of all, of course, being 4/8 - the birthday assigned to Lester Papadopoulos as a clue that that's when the old Roman emperors are about to strike Camp Jupiter. Though life at Camp Jupiter is pretty shaken up by the loss of one of their own, they still are ready and willing to fight for their lives - and their glorious model of civilization, a new Rome so much more enlightened than the real one was - and who better to fight alongside Apollo than old faves like Hazel, Frank, and Reyna? Just one more book to go in this series, and I have no idea what Uncle Rick will do after that - just stick to being executive producer of the Rick Riordan Presents lineup? Maybe. But whatever he does is going to keep all the fans happy, I'm sure - and keep on earning him new ones.

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