"If what you like about Riordan's new series is 'random kid is actually a demi-god'"
Umm...no, lol, actually, that's what me not want to read it at first because it sounded like yet another attempt to cash in on Harry Potter. However, I have a friend whose reading tastes I trust insist that I read it.
What really sucked me in at first was how he had transformed these millennia old tales and placed them into a modern context while still keeping the main points of the original story. For the younger reader, they get to be exposed to all these stories before they're covered later because schools don't have the time for such stories like they used to. We didn't really cover them in depth until high school. For me, I loved a refresher course in Greek and Roman mythology, including the more obscure stuff that I wasn't sure I learned in the first place.
It also helped I've always been partial to satyrs...falling for James McAvoy was just inevitable..., there were a number of strong females which he has written better and increased with each book and there was a character that I now realize I liked for almost all the same reasons I love Loki but this was before I liked Loki.
The most recent book also has the first occurrence I've ever seen in a YA novel of a major character being revealed as gay and other characters being able to comment/support them on it. So between all of this and my curiosity about how Riordan being a Hiddlestoner might affect things, makes me really excited for his take on things.
I definitely need to track down Runemarks though, thanks for being more in depth about it.
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Umm...no, lol, actually, that's what me not want to read it at first because it sounded like yet another attempt to cash in on Harry Potter. However, I have a friend whose reading tastes I trust insist that I read it.
What really sucked me in at first was how he had transformed these millennia old tales and placed them into a modern context while still keeping the main points of the original story. For the younger reader, they get to be exposed to all these stories before they're covered later because schools don't have the time for such stories like they used to. We didn't really cover them in depth until high school. For me, I loved a refresher course in Greek and Roman mythology, including the more obscure stuff that I wasn't sure I learned in the first place.
It also helped I've always been partial to satyrs...falling for James McAvoy was just inevitable..., there were a number of strong females which he has written better and increased with each book and there was a character that I now realize I liked for almost all the same reasons I love Loki but this was before I liked Loki.
The most recent book also has the first occurrence I've ever seen in a YA novel of a major character being revealed as gay and other characters being able to comment/support them on it. So between all of this and my curiosity about how Riordan being a Hiddlestoner might affect things, makes me really excited for his take on things.
I definitely need to track down Runemarks though, thanks for being more in depth about it.