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    Zeus has punished his son Apollo– god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more–by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester. The only way Apollo can reclaim his rightful place on Mount Olympus is by restoring several Oracles that have gone dark. What is affecting the Oracles, and how can...

    Rick Riordan announced that he would be creating a new series on his The Sword of Summertour, where he announced the title of his new book. The cover and excerpt of the first chapter of this book were released on December 22, 2016.

    Blemmyae

    Apollo, still as a human named Lester Papadopoulos, arrives in Indianapolis on Leo Valdez's dragon, Festus, along with Leo himself and the now mortal Calypso. Almost immediately after getting off the Indiana Statehouse, they are attacked by Nanette with her fellow Blemmyae on Washington Street, forced to leave Festus sleeping as a suitcase behind, and flee into an alley. A ghost wearing cheese-colored clothes assists them in running away to a circular plaza. Even though Leo attempted to fight...

    The Waystation

    Suddenly, Britomartis, goddess of traps and proprietor of the Waystation, appears. Apollo is not happy since she tricked him the past many times. She announces that the middle emperor has kidnapped her sacred griffins named Abelard and Heloiseas well as many other mythical animals so he can use them in a celebration in three days. Britomartis insists that Leo stay behind, so Apollo decides to take Calypso to the zoo, where the griffins are held, the next day. If they succeed, Britomartis will...

    Indianapolis Zoo

    They escape on the train and find a lot of captive animals near a training facility, including Abelard and Heloise. Other animals included ostriches dressed in armor-like clothes, Commodus trained them for combat. Heloise has an egg, Apollo and Calypso hum a lullaby that his parents used to sing to him and Artemis on Delos. But then Lityerses arrives, he reveals that when he and his father worked for Gaea, Midas got killed during his encounter with Leo Valdez but he managed to escape after be...

    The prophecy (which was given in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet) was given from The Oracle of Trophonius through Meg while at the Waystation:

    Lester (Apollo)/ Still human; thanks for asking/ Gods, I hate my life
    Headless guys and gals/ Not loving the Midwest vibe/ Oh, look—a cheese ghost
    My last performance/ Some old lady drops the mic/ And kills everyone
    No building should be/ A secret from Apollo/ Or drop bricks on him
    The book is dedicated to American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin, who had a major influence on Rick Riordan and taught him that rules change in the Reaches.
    On page 241 of the paperback version, Apollo states that he had met Indra, the Hindu god of lightning, at some point in his years of godhood, and was searching for vindaloo on a late-night road trip.
    On a page in the book, Apollo calls the grain spirits something that references to the three wise monkeys.
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  4. Word Count 93,559. Text Complexity; Lexile Level: 700L; ATOS Reading Level: 5.3; AR Quiz Numbers; Quiz 189255, 14 AR Points; OverDrive Digital Book Details; Explore on Marketplace

  5. The Dark Prophecy is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on May 2, 2017, and is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

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  7. But Apollo’s trials aren’t over. He has received a prophecy—in limerick form, the worst kind—from ancient Grove of Dodona. The prophecy instructs him to locate a second long-forgotten oracle in “a cave blue and hollow.” Those words send him flying on Festus, Leo’s bronze dragon, to Indianapolis.

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