The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

by Rick Riordan

There’s an old saying: the definition of insanity is shooting an invulnerable cow in the face over and over and expecting a different result.

So I did the heroic thing. I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

‘Try unplugging it,’ said the second tech. ‘Then plug it back in.’ Clearly, he was the senior troubleshooter for 1-555-ASK-EVIL.

‘No one hits my boyfriend,’ Will thundered. ‘And no one kills my dad!’

‘The Beast is dead.’ Meg tapped the side of her head. ‘I killed it.

Python was a bazooka; I was a housefly. He could easily kill me with one shot, but he had to catch me first.

‘You’ll come back?’ she asked. ‘Always,’ I promised. ‘The sun always comes back.’