The author’s purpose for writing this novel was simply to entertain. The genre is fantasy, which shows that it is to entertain. If the author was trying to inform or persuade the reader of something, he or she would most likely use a genre of nonfiction, because then the author would be able to provide evidence. Another reason that the author wrote this book was because the series prior to The Lost Hero, Percy Jackson, was very popular and liked. Making this series satisfied many people because many people wanted to find out what happened next to Percy Jackson and his friends. Whether everything ended okay for the heroes or not. Writing this book was a smart move for the author because there was such a large audience waiting for the book to
