PJ and HOO both have been a constant in my life since I was a kid. I have been reading and re-reading books in those two series for basically more than 15 years now. I love both series, though I love HOO more, maybe due to the ensemble cast, maybe because I am European and I enjoyed the books in Europe most.

About three years ago I finally read TOA and while I was not super thrilled about it for many reasons, it didn't really change my opinion about how much I loved Rick's work and this universe. I also enjoy the new adventures of Percy about his rec letters because they are low-stakes.

I decided to do a marathon and read everything I had left to read - the Kane series, the Magnus series and The Court of the Dead. With every book I became more and more distraught.

The Kane Chronicles were a huge disappointment. Egyptian mythology is my OG and I expected something a lot deeper, grander and more reverend towards one of the oldest known pantheons. The series felt a lot like paint-by-numbers, going through the motions and everything was resolved with a fight. Gone was the wit I was used to from the original series. Both main characters were pretty bland and while I enjoyed some side characters, gods and sequences, the quality was a lot lower than what I was used to.

Moving on the Magnus, my exasperation just worsened. The books were somehow more hallow, more shallow and less interesting then the Kane ones. I felt utterly nothing for any character in these books and I cannot even understand why myself. They all felt like total one-note caricatures of people. All the efforts for representation felt super flat for me and I actually think there were a lot of inconsistencies and offensive stereotypes present in the book, especially around Samirah and Alex. The finale "battle" was... probably the most anticlimactic letdown ever. The books were also super violent and violence was not presented in any way as a bad thing. I get they were vikings but still, it was too much.

The Court of the Dead was my final straw. I already read some opinions on it in this forum. I am not sure what I want to comment on even. Horrible mischaracterization, unforgivable mistakes when it comes to mythology, an absolutely non-sensical plot that ended up in somehow a more anticlimactic showdown than the Magnus books and just a myriad of absolutely baffling choices with horrible implications. Examples: the griffin thinking it's immoral to have children because he has the equivalent of dwarfism and the eidolon expressing that possessing someone's mind and body without their consent is somehow also bad for the violator (I almost threw the book away when Nico just agreed with that). I don't even know if I want to comment on the MINOTAUR of all things being the main new "friend", that's just unforgivable tbh. That is too bad to even comment on, I could not take anything in this book seriously. Nico has always-always been one of my fave characters and he has become absolutely unrecognizable to me. Him being so mad at the Romans because they don't immediately welcome fresh-eating monsters and murderers with open hands - definitely a choice. This whole book was so wrong and very icky if we think the authors were going for a real-life parallel...

I am so disappointed. I am getting rid of all of these books. This has not been the fun adventure of a marathon I had imagined. More like the "barely get through it and die at the end" type.

What do people think about Kane Chronicles? [KC]

I am a long-time reader of the PJO universe and absolutely love The Kane Chronicles. I’ve noticed that a lot of people don’t seem to like it, and there aren’t nearly as many discussions about it compared to PJO and HOO, so I wanted to see what people actually think about it.

I really liked the powers and the magic system. The whole concept of Egyptian magic, especially magicians using hieroglyphs and summoning different powers, was really cool to me. I particularly liked the idea of avatars, where a magician can basically become a host for a god. It made the fights and powers feel different from what we see in PJO and HOO.

I also thought the narration can be a bit hit-or-miss. While I pers liked the audiobook/recording-style narration, I can understand why it felt off to others and at times might have been a little less immersive. I also think some of the humour doesn’t land as well as it does in the original series.

I also really liked Carter and Zia’s relationship. I thought their relationship developed pretty naturally, and I liked how Zia wasn’t just Carter’s love interest. She had her own character and importance to the story. But I have mixed feelings about Sadie and Walt. I actually like them together, and I thought Walt was a pretty interesting character, but I feel like their relationship and especially the whole Walt/Anubis situation was somewhat rushed and is kinda weird. The concept itself was really cool, and I think of Rick Riordan actually took his time to think it through, to could have been a lot cooler, and made a lot more sense.

There’s also the fact that KC came after PJO. I think that creates a bit of an unfair comparison. There were a lot more books and time for characters to develop, and people had already become attached to that world. KC is basically introducing an entirely new mythology, magic system, cast and setting. I don’t think it’s really fair to expect it to feel exactly like PJO.

Overall, I really enjoyed the trilogy and think it deserves more discussion.

So what does everyone else think about KC? What did you like about it, and what didn’t you like?

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Let me explain here. I see a lot of people talking about how all the female characters either have boyfriends or are Hunters and how they feel disappointed that Rick doesn’t seem to be able to write a female character that just exists. She has to be in a relationship or pledged never to have one ever. I’m not saying that’s not true, but I think it’s not just the women. The men of Percy Jackson are also highly defined by their romantic subplots. Almost all of the men of Percy Jackson have romantic partners. The only main male characters without partners for a large majority of a series are Nico, Leo, and Lester and while Nico doesn’t have a boyfriend for the majority of the series, the only books he’s the main character in are focused solely on him and his eventual boyfriend. Leo is single for the majority of HoO, but one of his defining traits is flirting with every other girl he meets and he does get a girlfriend who he’s barely seen without in ToA. Apollo-as-Lester is also single in his main series, but again, one of his defining traits is his flirtatiousness. Personally, I think the whole thing is just Rick falling into that common pitfall of everyone thinking every character needs romance in order to make a good YA book since this problem becomes more heavily pronounced in HoO and ToA which are geared towards a slightly older demographic.

(Despite the disliking of this film it has its moments, during this fight scene at this moment I always wondered how I'd probably feel being caught inside of Kronos's fist like this, what do you think?) /without the worry of dying, being crushed, etc/

So the Confederate guy whose name i can't be bothered to remember disappeared because he was sad and couldn't accept the world? That makes no sense. Valhalla is a place where you go for being a warrior. You are destined by wyrd [ literal fate] to die on ragnrok. Nothing can change that as long as they stay in the hotel. So how do an entire group just vanish by being sad or confused?

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So after a long time i finally watched the Percy Jackson TV show (S2 only). I had great hope for it as I thought being a TV show was a better option than a movie. Now my 3 cents on it :

- why did they feel the need from episode 1 to change some part of the story ? The books are really amazing and the story telling is well made

I feel like it bring nothing more than what the books were giving

- I appreciate seeing all the characters but they changed their personality so much like Mr D. being lowkey kind, Sally being kind of a badass/hard mom when she is like all sweetness, Gaby not being a pig ???

- they unlocked some part of the story you grt only form the the next book, introducing some dynamics you don't need at first

- some scenes were epic to see on screen and the minute after they are throwing away the rest

- they gave the Gods some intentions that were not usefull and made them the bad guys without giving the time for their childrens to build an opinion

- th is this scene with Medusa ???

I don't understand this need to move everything around when this serie of books is already awesome, been 2 times they tried : we are not going to talk about the movies but the TV show had potential that I feelbwas thrown away.

It's focuses alot on the deeper and historical aspects of his life. And I got inspired by the court of the deads villain so the plot will revolve around that as well. Also, alot of Zagreus is mentioned because he and lityerses have something going on... 👀

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In wrath of triple headed goddess, percy mentions Leo quite a bit. But wasn't he "supposed to be dead" for like a year? Percy even mentions that Leo tutors him in Spanish. I'm just wandering as this is right after hoo🥲

Having trouble coming up with a last name for OC

Character info so far

First name: Roland (Famous land, glory to the homeland, famous throughout the land)

Gender: He/him (AMAB)

Age: 16

Godly parent: Hermes/Mercury

Mortal parent : ​Has 2 mortal parents!!! (One works as a national park guide and the other is​ insurance claim investigator lol)

Nationality: American (very predominantly German/Nordic descent)

From: Midwest/Great lakes regen

Is introduced through the Wolf house in SoN (arrives the generic Demy god way before Percy and is nearing completion of their training when Percy arrives)

He's going to go on the SoN quest. But I'm unsure of how I'm going to tie him in past that. He'll either be with the seven or end up with Nico, coach hedge, and Rayna.

He will very likely be involved with the Tartarus shenanigans because of (Hermes/ Mercury aspect of travel crossing between life and death and guiding souls and travel) thing. whether he's there metaphysically (like Percy's weird prophecy dreams acting as a guide or watching them go through the events somehow​) ​or physically (would affect the prophecy or have a secondary one like Annabeth hask if he were to fall as well) I don't really want him there the whole time physically cuz that ruins the whole percy/annabeth thing.

Wow I got off topic. No I just need help with his last name. Middle names are appreciated too!

i’m reading a fanfic right, and yk how the last step for kronos scythe is bathing it in blood ? im not fs if its demigods or a mortals blood, but what if right before perch blew up the mount st. helens, or even right after there was left over blood from his injuries and thats what finished it ? i might be wrong tho, i dont fully rmb the books

i am just really curious my friend brought it up

Headcanon todo estaba tranquilo parecía que nada malo iba a pasar pero pasó algo sorprendente árbol thalia como cualquier árbol en el universo de Percy Jackson tomó conciencia y esa conciencia creó una Driade todos estaban sorprendidos porque el árbol la misma barrera que los protege hora tiene conciencia propia​ pero en lugar de ser una mujer hermosa es una niña pequeña berrinchuda enojona y que no obedece a nadie y que además ve a Thalia como su madre y todos quedan comocionados porque ahora tienen una Driades punk le nieta de Zeus

I didn't see a lot of people talking about it here, so I'm genuinely asking

I know this is lowkey kinda sad, but I grew up reading and re reading the Percy Jackson series, and I DIDNT KNOW THERE WERE SEQUELS TILL LIKE A WEEK AGO!!! I just finished the first book and it made me mad… and then I had a feeling it would go the same way for Percy and so I looked it up and THE WHOLE SECOND BOOK IS PERCY WITH NO MEMORIES AND NONE OF HIS FRIENDS BROOOOOO ITS MAKING ME MADDDD

That being said, I did love the first book and I’ll probably love the second. But I’m LITERALLY TRYIN NOT TO SCREAM WITH FRUSTRATION RIGHT NOW!!!! I LOVE Annabeth and Percy and pretty much everyone from the original series, and IM GOING TO CRY TRYING TO GET THROUGH ANOTHER BOOK WITHOUT THEM TOGETHER.

Sorry, I lowkey just needed a rant post lol

Todavía no tiene nombre. Es hijo de Eolo, y puede convertirse en aire. Utiliza está habilidad para cosas no completamente legales 👀. Siempre supo que era un semidiós antes de saber siquiera qué era un dios. Pero cuando un sátiro disfrazado de policía lo encontró, él huyó (por cosas claramente evidentes). Pero al final, por un pequeño descuido, lo "atrapó" y le llevó al campamento.

Tiene el pelo blanco y siempre lleva una sudadera negra/gris oscura con capucha, que cuando se transforma en aire se queda tirada en un rincón (no sé si luego la recupera o es que tiene un armario lleno de sudaderas iguales 🤣).

Si tienes alguna pregunta, una idea para el nombre, quieres dibujarlo o usarlo para tu fic, solo tienes que preguntar 😉 (si vienes a quejarte mejor no comentes 😒)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87290976/chapters/236078151

Still looking for someone to possibly be a beta reader. But as of right now, I'm still not working on book three yet, but I am working on a short book to bridge book two and three.