Camp half-blood confidential by Rick Riordan.

"Camp half-blood confidential" by Rick Riordan.

This book is published by Penguin UK in 2017 and has 192 pages.

After his hugely popular Percy Jackson series' author has come up with a new book. A book that is not part of any series but a side dish that tells miscellaneous things about Camp Half Blood. It tells us how it was formed and how it was transformed.

It gives Snippets of various things that happened, Nuggets of information, Gossip etc. In short it is a sneak peak at the life at camp half blood, the less exciting stuff. As a result it's also less interesting. 

It appears as if author has used the ideas that he discarded while writing his books and cobbled them together to create this book. 

Although the camp is in existence for millennia, most of the stories are of the current breed of demigods that the readers know about from author's previous books. Most of the stuff is narrated by the Geyser God and Percy. 

This book makes great commercial sense, though not literary, as it can leverage on the popularity of previous books, thus sales are assured.  We have seen J. K. Rowling do it as well. However, at the end of book, one wonders what exactly was in it?

Why did I read this book? I bought it for my son.    

What I didn't like?  Almost everything. 

What did I like? Author and Publisher's business acumen.

  

Don't buy it. Not worth it's cost.