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katestineAs you can tell from this week's poll, I scarfed down Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. They're very good, one of the best remixes I've ever encountered, largely bc the author really knows his mythology. As an adult who knows her mythology, it was fun to guess which story the characters were revisiting or who the big bad would turn out to be. I bet they're filed under Young Adult in a bookstore, but I'd have no hesitation handing them to a young child, although I'd personally prefer they read the originals first.
I liked that Hera and Icarus were both given more sympathetic tellings, although as you can tell from the second-to-last poll question, there's at least one character who doesn't get on with Hera. That said, the characters are remarkably GenreUnsavvy considering they live in a world with Greek myths. If I knew there were Greek mythological monsters out to get me, you can bet I'd memorize Bullfinch's. I had two other nitpicks with the first tetralogy: a character seeks eternal revenge yada yada on someone for not protecting his older sister when she got killed picking up a figurine as a present for you, which seemed ridiculous until I remembered he is 10. i.e. maybe it's my fault for being used to whatever they're calling the trope of overly wise children. The first poll question was also a nitpick until (spoiler) Annabeth explains, "I was a brain child. Literally. Children of Athena are sprung from the divine thoughts of our mother and the mortal ingenuity of our father." Isn't that cute? In writing this post, I've just prepared next week's poll, and all I can say is, it's a shame Riordan hasn't come up with a similar dodge for Artemis, bc my favoritest heroine could totally be a daughter of hers.
Even though I read the first few chapters of Riordan's Egyptian mythology books, I couldn't get into them, possibly bc I know so little about Egypt in general. I have a 15hr book to address some of that, but yeah. I almost didn't start the sequel tetralogy to the Percy Jackson books, although there my concern was that I'd finish the one book that had been published so far and want more. I somehow enjoyed The Lost Hero less than the prior books: not sure if it's bc I burned out on heroic adventures (I read the first tetralogy in about a week) or bc I'm subconsciously protecting myself from a book addiction :)
I liked that Hera and Icarus were both given more sympathetic tellings, although as you can tell from the second-to-last poll question, there's at least one character who doesn't get on with Hera. That said, the characters are remarkably GenreUnsavvy considering they live in a world with Greek myths. If I knew there were Greek mythological monsters out to get me, you can bet I'd memorize Bullfinch's. I had two other nitpicks with the first tetralogy: a character seeks eternal revenge yada yada on someone for not protecting his older sister when she got killed picking up a figurine as a present for you, which seemed ridiculous until I remembered he is 10. i.e. maybe it's my fault for being used to whatever they're calling the trope of overly wise children. The first poll question was also a nitpick until (spoiler) Annabeth explains, "I was a brain child. Literally. Children of Athena are sprung from the divine thoughts of our mother and the mortal ingenuity of our father." Isn't that cute? In writing this post, I've just prepared next week's poll, and all I can say is, it's a shame Riordan hasn't come up with a similar dodge for Artemis, bc my favoritest heroine could totally be a daughter of hers.
Even though I read the first few chapters of Riordan's Egyptian mythology books, I couldn't get into them, possibly bc I know so little about Egypt in general. I have a 15hr book to address some of that, but yeah. I almost didn't start the sequel tetralogy to the Percy Jackson books, although there my concern was that I'd finish the one book that had been published so far and want more. I somehow enjoyed The Lost Hero less than the prior books: not sure if it's bc I burned out on heroic adventures (I read the first tetralogy in about a week) or bc I'm subconsciously protecting myself from a book addiction :)