Rick Riordan does it again!!!

          Hello readers! Sorry about the wait for this post. I’ve been very busy for the past 2 weeks because of school work and high school application/placement test/interview business. But I’m baaaaaacccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkk now!!! Anyways, this week I will be talking about Rick Riordan’s second children’s book series, The Heroes of Olympus. This book series is sort of like a continuation of Rick Riordan’s first children’s fiction series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It includes all of the old characters from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, but adds new ones. If you are wondering why Rick Riordan decided to create an entirely new series for stories with the same characters, then just read the next few sentences.

I don’t know why exactly he decided to do that, but I believe it is because these stories are an entirely new adventure with a very different, larger, and more important purpose in mind.

         Anyways, I love the way that Rick Riordan has each chapter in a different character’s perspective. It lets the reader understand how every single main character feels about certain situations. It definitely makes the book much more interesting and it makes the reader want to continue reading because they want to learn in the next chapter how a certain character reacts to a certain situation compared to other characters. (Sorry about that confusing comment, but that was the only way that I could word my thoughts) (I hope it wasn’t too confusing and you still understand what I was trying to say in that sentence) Well, at least that’s always been the case for me when I am reading this series. In fact, I get so absorbed into the book that I end up forgetting that I have homework to do and I still need to eat my dinner. It drives my parents crazy!!! I feel a little bit bad for them. Most parents would encourage their children to read more, but I read too much, and my parents hate it soooo much because when I am sitting/laying on my bed with a good book, I tend to ignore people and everything else, which makes me act rude. Another reason I really like the whole character alternating idea is because when I read other books, I’m always wondering how the other characters feel about what is happening in the story, and my mind feels like there is something missing in the story. However, I don’t feel this way when I read The Heroes of Olympus series. So, that’s a large plus to this series and Riordan’s writing method.

 Although this has nothing to do with the stories and the way Rick Riordan wrote this series, I just wanted to mention that I absolutely love the covers of each book in The Heroes of Olympus series.

 

 

Warning for all of you readers out there who haven’t read this series yet: be prepared for a very annoying cliffhanger at the end of The Mark of Athena. When I read The Mark of Athena for the first time, The House of Hades hadn’t come out yet, so I was very impatient to know what happens next. Also be prepared for a lot of surprising reveals in The Mark of Athena and The House of Hades. I won’t mention any of these reveals because I don’t want to spoil anything for anybody who hasn’t read this series yet.

I am super super, super, super, duper excited for when The Blood of Olympus comes out. It comes out on October 7, 2014. I’m too impatient to wait for it to come out. IT MUST COME OUT RIGHT NOW!!! IT MUST!!!   I have heard that The Blood of Olympus is going to be the last book in The Heroes of Olympus series. This makes me both happy and sad because I want to know how everything ends, but then again, this means that there won’t be anything else to wait for. There will be no more suspense and no more books. J L J L

I also think that In The Blood of Olympus , Leo will relocate the island of Ogygia and Calypso using the astrolabe from Odysseus and the crystal from Ogygia. I don’t know why, but this is what I am looking most forward to in the last book. In fact, I’m looking more forward to this than seeing whether or not Gaea is defeated and how. Maybe this is because I adore LOVE stories. But anyways, I’m really excited.  

Anyways, as mentioned in my title, Rick Riordan does it again. He has managed to take the characters from his first children’s series and create an entirely new series of adventures with the most powerful demigods of all time. He has also managed to come up with even more adventure-packed stories for this series.

In my opinion this series is even better than the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It contains more action and suspense, with tinges of love (both issues and happy-moments).

The Lost Hero : 10

The Son of Neptune : 10

The Mark of Athena : 10

The House of Hades : 10

As a closing up remark, I would like to say that if you have not read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, then you should not read this series, otherwise it won’t seem as complete. So read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series before starting this one!!!

Good Bye readers and until next time! J

Why Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

HELLO!!! This week I will be spilling out my thoughts on Rick Riordan and his first children’s book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, while listening to YMCA by the Village People. However, I don’t know if you are familiar with Rick Riordan so I will be sharing some information I found out about him before I start talking about his books.

So, for about fifteen years Rick Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. While he was a teacher, he started writing mystery novels for adults, such as his multi-award winning Tres Navarre series. He then turned to writing children’s fiction when he started the Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his oldest son. He then wrote a sequel to the Lightning Thief and turned it into a series. He then started working on the Heroes of Olympus series and the Kane Chronicles series. There are now over 35 million copies of his Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, and Kane Chronicles books in print in the United States, and rights have been sold into more than 35 countries. Rick Riordan is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, which is another #1 New York Times bestseller. In 2011, he received the Children’s Choice Book Award for Author of the year. He now writes full-time and lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.

One more thing I feel the need to mention is that his last name, Riordan, is pronounced Rye’-er-dan. If you still don’t understand how to pronounce it, try to make it rhyme with fireman, and if it does, then you are pronouncing his last name correctly. I wanted to mention this because my friends and I always disagreed on how to pronounce it, so I felt the urge to search it up and share it with you, so that you can clear up any highly unlikely disagreements with your friends on how to pronounce his last name.

          Now that I’ve given you a little bit of background on Rick Riordan, I’ll begin to share my feelings on the first children’s fiction series he wrote, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

                                 
                                              

(These are the five books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan)

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I own all of Rick Riordan’s children’s fiction books. I have probably read all of his book series at least 5 times in the past 2 years and I still don’t get tired of the books and his writing. I greatly admire his style of writing and the way he used his imagination to come up with the stories that several pre-teens and teenagers read all over the United States and in other places around the world. Whenever I’m reading one of his books, I get so caught up in the story that I almost always feel as if I am actually one of the characters in the book and I feel as if whatever I am reading about is actually happening. For example, if something sad happens, like in the Last Olympian when Silena Beauregard died, I get a sad feeling deep inside me or if something happy and exciting like when Percy and Annabeth share that underwater kiss, I get all happy. Anyways, I really enjoyed this series and I think that you will too.

Rating for The Lightning Thief - 9.5

Rating for The Sea of Monsters -  9    

Rating for The Titan’s Curse - 8.8

Rating for The Battle of the Labyrinth - 9.5

Rating for The Last Olympian - 9.5

Do I recommend this series – YES!!! (for both boys and girls ages 9+)

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Before I get started I want to say that if any of you people who are reading my blog don’t enjoy reading, I recommend you try to enjoy it. Just trust me with this. Not only has reading made my life more enjoyable, but it has also expanded my imagination and vocabulary, which comes in handy in everyday life. I have also learned to respect authors and their writing. So yaaaa……Just try it.