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The Tyrant's Tomb is a fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by Rick Riordan. It was published on September 24, 2019, and is the fourth book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

The story follows the god Apollo, turned into a human teenager named Lester, who along with the demigod Meg McCaffrey, needs to help defend Camp Jupiter from the attack of Triumvirate Holdings, a group of three evil Roman Emperors, as part of his quest to free five ancient oracles to regain his immortality. During the book, Apollo is also accompanied by the demigods Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Lavinia Asimov, and Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano.

The novel received positive reviews from critics, who praised Riordan's narrative and the book's humor. During its first week of release, The Tyrant's Tomb sold about 63,000 copies, entering on Amazon, Apple Books, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists. It won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Middle Grade and Children's Fiction. By the end of 2019, it had sold more than 238,000 copies.

Plot summary
While on their way to Camp Jupiter in San Francisco, Apollo and Meg McCaffrey, carrying the coffin of Jason Grace on a hearse, are attacked by eurynomos, but they are saved by a girl named Lavinia Asimov, a demigod from Camp Jupiter. She guides Apollo and Meg to there through a shortcut tunnel, where they encounter Hazel Levesque and two more euronymous, but Hazel kills the monsters making the tunnel collapse. In the camp, Apollo dreams with Caligula and Commodus, two of the Roman Emperors from Triumvirate Holdings, discussing their plan to defeat Camp Jupiter using Greek fire explosions by mortars placed on the fifty Caligula's yachts. After Apollo wake up, Frank Zhang shows the camp to him and explain the recent eurynomos attack they suffered, which caused the loss of a significant part of their demigod forces. The two also talk with the harpy Ella, who is tattooing parts of the Sibylline books on the Cyclops Tyson, and realize that the Roman King Tarquin is responsible for the attack and that he is looking for the Sibylline books, since he had bought them from the Cumaean Sibyl in the past. Ella also discovers a prophecy in the books regarding Tarquin's tomb, which is located under a nearby carousel. During Jason's funeral, the wolf-goddess Lupa comes and tells Apollo to get divine help to defeat his enemies.

The next day, the Camp Jupiter Senate approves a quest to find out more about Tarquin, sending Apollo, Hazel, Lavinia and Meg. Inside the tomb, the group discovers that Tarquin is now a skeleton and plans to attack Camp Jupiter again with Triumvirate Holdings the next day, and that the soundless god, first mentioned in the prophecy given by the Erythraean Sibyl in The Burning Maze, is imprisoned at Sutro Tower. Back at the camp, Ella tells them that to get divine help, they need to capture this god's last breath. Apollo, Meg and the praetor Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano go to the tower, and after been attacked by giant ravens, Apollo realizes that the soundless god is Harpocrates, whom he had bullied in the past, chained inside a container with the voice of the Cumaean Sibyl placed inside a jar. Harpocrates decides to help them and chooses to die, putting his last breath into the jar of the Sibyl.

After they return to Camp Jupiter, they see it being attacked by the monstrous army of the Triumvirate Holdings. Apollo calls for divine help of his sister, Diana, and go to help Frank fighting Caligula and Commodus at the Caldecott Tunnel. Frank sacrifices himself using his firewood to explode the tunnel full of oil, killing Caligula in the process, and Apollo later kills Commodus in the grief of losing his friend, but the Emperor gives the order to fire the mortars against the camp. However, Lavinia and her dryads and fauns friends hacked the yachts, causing the mortars to destroy the boats instead. Meanwhile, Tarquin and his ghouls tries to find Ella and Tyson, but are killed by Diana and her hunters. In the aftermath, it is revealed that Frank survived the fire, Reyna resigns as praetor to join the hunters of Diana, and Hazel is chosen as the new praetor. Ella and Tyson give Apollo a new prophecy, which means that he must return to New York City to face Nero, the last Emperor of Triumvirate Holdings.

Characters

 * Apollo / Lester Papadopoulos: is the main protagonist. One of the Twelve Olympians, he was cast down from Olympus and turned into a human tennager named Lester by Zeus. During the book, Apollo needs to face the consequences of his acts when he was a god, and starts to show more compassion for humans. He also becomes good in archery again.


 * Frank Zhang: is a demigod son of Mars and one of the praetors of Camp Jupiter, who has the ability to shapeshift into animals. His life is linked to a firewood, which if burnt, will cause him to die. At the end of the book, however, Frank accepts his destiny and the bond is broken.


 * Hazel Levesque: is a demigod daughter of Pluto. She can navigate through the underground without become lost, cause earthquakes, and change the shape of the earth. She can also ride the horse Arion. At the end of the book, Hazel becomes praetor of Camp Jupiter.


 * Lavinia Asimov: is a demigod daughter of Terpsichore, the muse of dance. She has pink hair, likes to chewing bubble gum, uses a manubalista in combat, and is friend of dryads and fauns. At the end of the book, she becomes the centurion of the Fifth Cohort of Camp Jupiter.


 * Meg McCaffrey: is a demigod daughter of Demeter. She has a pair of crescent rings which can transform into sickles made of imperial gold, the Roman sacred metal. During the book, Meg befriends Lavinia and command the Camp Jupiter's unicorns in the battle against the Triumvirate Holdings.


 * Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano: is a demigod daughter of Bellona. She can lend her energy and skills to nearby demigods. At the end of the book, she decides to resign as praetor to join the hunters of Diana.

Composition and marketing
The announcement of The Tyrant's Tomb, the fourth book in The Trials of Apollo series, was made in the last page of its predecessor, The Burning Maze, launched on May 1, 2018.