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I made a topic for this. But we could talk about it here.

I'll drop some actual reasonable negative opinions on this instead of being baseless about everything.

The plot is EXTREMELY formulaic.
1. Some weird thing happens at a school
2. Off to camp halfblood, it's always safe there
3. Except for the life-dangering thing we just encountered before we even go on our adventure
4. Okay yay a prophecy BUT REMEMBER, these books are so formulaic it's literally a rule of the series that you can only have three people go on it!
5. Strange modernization of a classic Greek work like The Odyssey takes place
6. Yay, we were all succesful. Except for those one or two people that died (to prove the situation was serious).
7. A brief comment on a romance between characters.
8. Repeat ad nauseum each entry

Formula didn't even change when the Heroes Of Olympus started. And the comments on romance got MORE FREQUENT. That series just feels like a big "You asked for it fans, HERE TAKE IT!"

Not to mention some gigantic plot holes that I won't be bothered to post write now.

luiysia wrote:

I really dislike the narration. It feels like a middle-aged author tried to write like a teenager thinks but ended up just sounding like this. Except less funny and more just sad.

I just realized how much of a cliche the first paragraphs fall on.

The old "DON'T READ THIS, NOT SAFE!" warning starts us off and then WHOOSH "Hi, I'm [insert name here], an [insert age]-year-old"

OH YOU BET I AM!!!!! It is awesome!! I love Rick Riordan's works and Percy Jackson was AMAZING!!! Sadly I haven't started the heros of olympus series yet. I sort of felt bad for Tyson when he admired "ponies" and they were like "Dude, what the heck?" and he got sad.... I'm like that, not like Tyson, I mean I feel bad when an innocently ignorant character is sad or something. Especially since Tyson seems like a scary giant at first but turns out to be a very young baby. I also like Annabeth, No reason for you to ask why...   And Aphrodite, and Calypso....       

MelTheDolphin wrote:

I'm a fan of the PJO series as well!! Right now I'm waiting to read Battle of the Labyrinth (school library, Y U NO have it?) :-P And my favourite character is Apollo, cos he just seems totally cool.

Actually, Apollo seems like a wanna-be-hotrod to me, though I'm not trying to insult your taste for gods so don't get mad.

Last edited by sparky2008123 (2012-11-15 21:48:57)

luiysia wrote:

I really dislike the narration. It feels like a middle-aged author tried to write like a teenager thinks but ended up just sounding like this. Except less funny and more just sad.

That's what happens. Rick Riordan (the author) is in like his late 40s

I love the series, but I think I like Redwall better.