The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

by Rick Riordan

I knew what it was like wanting to make your dad proud, even if your dad was hard to love.

Shades drifted aimlessly across the hills, coming from nowhere and going nowhere, chattering to each other and trying to remember who they were in life.

is it possible to be a shade while you're still in the mortal world because...

“Everyone has ghosts—deaths you regret. Guilt. Fear.

You are an angry girl. Good at running away. Not much else.”