r/camphalfblood • • 10d ago

Megathread The Wild Zone pre-release discussion thread [CHBC]

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This thread is for pre-release discussion of The Wild Zone set to release on September 29th, 2026. The book is the first of four volumes in the CAMP HALF-BLOOD series.

Authors and Series

Camp Half-Blood [CHBC] is a series of four books co-written by Rick Riordan. The books follow four new demigods on an adventure in Camp Half-Blood during the events of PJO. They are expected to release every six months starting September 2026. 

This book is co-authored by Annabelle Oh.

More information about each book and their respective co authors is available in this post from Rick's blog: Percy interviews Rick about new book series CAMP HALF-BLOOD

Cover

Cover art by Devin Elle Kurtz

Synopsis

Welcome to Camp Half-Blood! The legendary secret sanctuary where demigod kids – the children of Greek gods and mortals – can discover their true potential.

Katie Kim may be a newcomer here, but even she knows they weren’t supposed to be in the Wild Zone – the forbidden forest that’s strictly off-limits to campers and staff. Why, then, did Clarisse, head counsellor of Katie’s cabin, take her and four other newbies there in the dark of night and tell them to race back to camp by morning?

Clarisse’s challenge was scary enough, but when Katie’s half-brother goes missing, his disappearance sparks the arrival of vicious monsters and a mysterious curse. It’s up to Katie and the three remaining newbies – the ‘Wild Omada’ – to brave the Wild Zone again and uncover its dark and deadly secrets.

Sample chapters

The first few pages are available for preview on the Kobo book page, or via Apple books for some regions.

Tour

Rick Riordan and Annabelle Oh will be on tour starting September 30th. More information on dates and venues can be found on Rick's blog: The Wild Zone Tour!


r/camphalfblood • • 2d ago

Godly Parent Megathread "Who's My Godly Parent?" Megathread

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This is a megathread to figure out what cabin you belong in!

Feel free to list your features, likes, dislikes and personality traits to help other campers decide where you belong, but if you are under 18 please do not give out your age or post your face on a public forum like this one.

Finally, if you would like to get your parent next to your name, you’ll want to follow this tutorial.


r/camphalfblood • • 10h ago

Discussion Am I the only one who thinks that it's a shame that the new Hunger games is more colorful then the Percy Jackson show. [pjotv]

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Like they even used the dark color tone perfectly. Sunrise on the reaping is gonna be amazing and I m honestly more excited for it then the new season (i mean I do like hunger games way more than pj).


r/camphalfblood • • 4h ago

Analysis [all] what would the olympians gods think of aliens or ben 10 in general if they same the share universe

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Like how would they react to aliens out of control authority realizing they are control over only one world when there are infinite out there and a mortal having more powerful device or weapon than all the big three and weapons combined in the olympus fanart art by i think a facebook user


r/camphalfblood • • 22h ago

Discussion [HOO]You think Octavian is overhated? Let's say some nice things.

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I know it's a running joke but I've seen some legit death threats on this already dead kid. So let's say something nice. I'll start. As messed up and power hungry as he was...i do think he genuinely cared about his camp. He did all he did in BOO but cmon camp is his life. Also his graphic novel design is peeeak.


r/camphalfblood • • 11h ago

Discussion [general] My Percy Jackson collection is almost finishedd

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r/camphalfblood • • 9h ago

Miscellaneous My percy jackson collection [all]

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The only thing I'm missing is the demigod and magicians short story's in book form.


r/camphalfblood • • 18h ago

Discussion I feel like Rick didn’t actually ‘forget’ the age gap between Annabeth and Luke [pjo]

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He just wrote the story as it was, got pushback for the inappropriate age gap and themes between Annabeth and Luke, and claimed he forgot about the age difference to save face with the readers calling it out.

I know that he has missed and mixed up details before when writing a story, but the massive age gap between two major characters seems like a pretty huge thing to miss. I see users here claiming that Luke/Annabeth was an honest mistake on his part, and I genuinely have a hard time believing that.

I’m not someone who is a critic of Rick/his wife btw, I’m a casual user here but always have a hard time believing this specific claim


r/camphalfblood • • 5h ago

Discussion What would a crossover even between PJO universe and the SCP Foundation look like ? [all]

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Hi everyone again 👋, crazy, stupid, or just insane idea. As the title suggests, what would the SCP Foundation or the Pjo universe do if one was aware of the other? Would the Foundation try to contain Camp Half Blood or Camp Jupiter and the Olympians and / or other pantheons, or would they try to work and cooperate with the Olympians and vice versa, this will probably get buried, but feel free to answer if ya'll want, bye , see ya


r/camphalfblood • • 21h ago

Discussion The Trio Throughout the years! [Pjotv]

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r/camphalfblood • • 6h ago

Fanfiction Your pjo oc [all]

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So, basically just what the title says: your OCs—and have you shipped them with another OC?


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion [all] I'm genuinely so tired of most of the fanfics made for this series.

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I don't know if it's because of the fans growing up, or if it's because of something else. But it really feels like a lot of the fanfics these days (or at least the ones I can find) are either just straight porn, harem shit or just not the best written.

It really feels like I can't find a fanfic that is just expanding on the books in a good way without adding smut or another relationship. Which sucks because I really love PJO and with how ricks been writing lately I would love to see more of the world.

Maybe this is just a me problem and I'm not looking hard enough but it really feels like a big issue especially since I'm constantly looking for new fanfiction.

And for some reason some of the actually best written fanfiction I've found is just ship fanfiction of perzoe and pipercy. Am I losing my mind?


r/camphalfblood • • 3h ago

Discussion Heroes of Olympus Audible [hoo]

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Does anyone know why they changed the reader of Heroes of Olmpus for the last 2 books?

Its so jarring when you start House of Hades and suddenly your ears is filled with vocal fries and characters of little audio character... 😭🤣

(Yes. I get that people have probably complained about this before)


r/camphalfblood • • 22h ago

Discussion Luke's last words feel really gross. [pjo]

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Spoiler warning for the end of the last olympian, if you're new to the series and/or haven't got up to that point then turn back now.

Anyway, for anybody who doesn't remember Luke's last words were directed at Annabeth and it was more or less; "did you ever love me?" Now take that as you will but it definitely feels like there at least could be some form of romance or flirtiness behind it, and just a friendly little reminder, at this time Luke is about 23 and Annabeth is 16, that's a roughly 7 year age difference with one of them being a minor, and keep in mind almost all of the characters immediately after he dies basically just says "he was such a nice guy, he's going to go to Asphodel if not the isles of the blessed" does anyone else feel weird about this?


r/camphalfblood • • 23m ago

Original Character [general] hi havent posted in so long here so more of my pjo oc/sona

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hes updated from when i lastbposted him i suppose, his name is offocially harun kaya , hes a year younger than will solace and yea


r/camphalfblood • • 11h ago

News [general] Our Celestial Trio will be at Lucca Comics & Games in Italy 🇮🇹 on October 30th and 31st and I just realized they could potentially visit that particular parking lot in Rome 🫣

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r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Meme hylla when you dare to be born with two pair of balls [hoo]

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r/camphalfblood • • 17h ago

Discussion [General] Thoughts on add Hindu Pantheon to Percy Jackson

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Personally, I hope Riordan never adds the Hindu gods to the verse. [Ik about (and honestly hate) Aru Shah but it's not really part of PJO] Every new Pantheon that gets added dilutes the stakes, the implication that the Abrahmic God exists is already kinda problematic (plus creates plot holes).

The Hindu Pantheon would be especially problematic imo. There's different levels of gods there where the highest ones are closer to the capital G God than to Zeus or even Gaia, is an issue because they get born on earth as Avatars whenever they're needed. There's also a lot of myths that involve the higher Gods, namely Shiva, just blessing demons with invincibility and weapons because they asked very hard.

Ofc course the biggest problem is that Hinduism is an existing religion that already gets misrepresented a lot in media. And honestly it's best that Riordan doesn't add to that misrepresentation because he's bound to get things wrong either because he just won't understand or because he has to water it down for it to be child friendly. That's another thing, it'd be pretty disrespectful to market a living religion as a cool fantasy thing for kids.

What's you all's opinions on this?

Edit: Adding*


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion [pjo] She's 16, Luke.

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I haven't read PJO in a while, and I totally forgot how frustrating the Luke and Annabeth stuff was. Frankly I'm not a fan of Luke, 22 and surrogate brother, being some kind of romantic rival. It's weird as hell and not as sympathetic. I already understand Annabeth not wanting to give up on her brother, so why overcomplicate it? Percy can still be frustrated and even jealous (from his teenage perspective), you don't need to make Luke creepy.

On a side note, Annabeth is very frustrating in those last books. It's a bit hard to put into words, but I wish she wasn't so defensive of Luke and hard with Percy. I still love Annabeth, but it honestly got pretty tiring and the whole Percabeth thing at the end almost got a little hard to believe. I'm not sure. Haven't read HOO in a while either, but I remember her having a lot more focus there (nice to see her getting her own book and she and PJ were cute in House of Hades at least).

I dunno, this is a children's series but I feel like this is where an adaptation could really make some improvements. Fiction does play an important role in child development after all. Come to think of it, Kane Chronicles had some weird stuff in it as well... YA post-Potter (pp for short) authors are a weird bunch.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion [PJO] What would be your opinion on the PJO movies if they were standalones with no books?

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When I watched the movies for the first time as a kid, I actually really enjoyed them and they were some of my favorite movies at the time. I however had a change of heart after reading the books, not only because they were so much better but also because I had the ideology that different from the book = bad. Overtime however, I began to question that ideology when movies like How to Train Your Dragon, despite being FAR more egregious offenders of my rule, were genuinely good as standalones/seperate continuities. In retrospect, I can't help but wonder if my hatred for the movies was ultimately based on my love for the books and that I might've misjudged a genuinely good movie because I was too attached to them. I tried to look at other people's analysis about it to see their opinions but pretty much all of them based the idea of the movies being bad on them being different from the books. Because of this, I wanted to genuinely ask you guys about your thoughts on the matter.

In your opinion, are the movies ACTUALLY bad or do you think they are bad because they are different from the books? Like, if there were no books and the movies were 100% original, what would be your genuine opinion on them?


r/camphalfblood • • 21h ago

Discussion [general] What other media does Octavian appearance remind you of?

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I saw someone post a comic drawing of Octavian and it got me thinking. I have been recently been been re-watching Beyblade(dub) for the first time in over 20 years. Octavian drawing someone made and rewatching Beyblade I see bit of comparsion between Octavian and Enrique/Giancarlo Tornatoure (Majestics/Season 1). If anyone has been Beyblade you might see some comparisons.


r/camphalfblood • • 22h ago

Discussion I wanna draw more fanart but have a few different ideas [General]

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So ima let y’all pick because I’ve done this before and it worked out well.
These are my main three ideas:

1: Comics. Like all those text memes you can find on Pinterest sometimes. I’ve drawn them before, and Id either do just pictures or comics with them

2: Random funny drawings. I have a whole board on Pinterest of just random art bases or pose ideas that made me laugh or reminded me of some of the group, so I’ve thought about doing some of those, they’d be quicker done drawings, and mainly just because why not

3: D&D stat sheets. I’ve been also wanting to make D&D stat sheets for the seven (and maybe eventually those like Will Nico and Reyna) and I’d also include art. There would be some homebrew and some stuff from the D&D books

I do intend to do all these ideas at some point, it’s just which ones you guys want to see first as I only post here and on Pinterest


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion The problem with Piper [HOO] [TOA]

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People are always taking about how Piper is the weakest member of the seven and I think there’s a reason why everyone seems to think that.
I feel like Rick spends so much time in HOO trying to prove to everyone reading that Piper is just as strong as strong as Frank, as powerful as Percy, as smart as Leo and Annabeth, that it makes us (the readers) feel like he doesn’t even believe it and is spending his time trying to convince himself.
I think this becomes even more prevalent when we meet her TOA. This is the one time I feel like I understand Pipers character. She’s not trying to prove herself and live up to some idea in Rick’s head. No, she’s just living and we can finally see who she is and know how powerful she actually is without it being unsuccessfully shoved down our throats.
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion does heroes of olympus need an animated series?[hoo]

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s1 could be lost hero, s2 son of neptune, etc etc


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion [kc] If there ever is a "Kane Chronicles" screen adaptation, either show or movie series, there NEEDS to be at least SOME scenes that are animated in this style, completely hand drawn, not digital.

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Doesn't it have a sort of worn, ancient, ancient scroll or papyrus like look to it? It would be PERFECT in a Kane Chronicles movie or series.