The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)

by Rick Riordan

Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

I will never understand how you mortals tolerate it. You live your entire life trapped in a sack of meat,

Part of me wanted to fend her off with a chair in case she decided to bite me.

I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn’t imagine what.

Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.

‘I have just been mugged. Also enslaved by a small child.’

giggled

‘Horrors!’ I cried. ‘Is that – Is that acne?’