

These demigod children are sent to Camp Half Blood, where they are taught about their ancestry, trained in warfare, and go on quests to save the world from monsters wreaking havoc on humanity.

The premise is simple: the Greek gods are still alive and kicking, and their children born to human parents are known as demigods. Yet with a Disney+ TV show in development and a sixth Percy Jackson and the Olympians book on its way later this year, Rick Riordan’s stories about the Greek demigod continue to delight fans 18 years later. When Rick Riordan’s novel Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief first hit shelves in 2005, it would have been almost inconceivable to imagine the heights to which that book, and the books that followed, would reach.
