Point of View

The Tower of Nero is told entirely from Apollo’s point-of-view. This does two important things for the narrative. First, it introduces Apollo’s situation to the audience that may not have read the previous books. They know from the beginning of the novel that Apollo is trapped in the body of a mortal, Lester Papadopoulos, and forced on a mission of great importance with his demigod master, Meg. He describes the past week of their journey, saying, “We battled our way through a pack of wild centaurs in Kansas, faced an angry famine spirit at the World’s Largest Fork in Springfield, Missouri… and outrun a pair of blue Kentucky drakons that chased us several times around Churchill Downs” (2). This moment immediately immerses the reader into the setting of the novel, as they know from the opening moments that this world is in some...