The Percy Jackson Thread

[Jetthebinturong]

They're first person POVs set in the same world and are based on similar ideas (one with Greek and Roman gods, the other with Egyptian) but the similarities stop there. I've read every main-series Riordan book (except Sword of Summer) and that includes TKC.

[Cornflower MM]

I GOT THE SWORD OF SUMMER! Now I'm torn because I really want to finish the Inheritance Cycle but I've got two and a half massive books to go and Magnus Chase is probably really fast-paced. I've got The Copper Gauntlet too.

I am so jealous. It'll be another six months - At least!! - before I can get my hands on it!

Anyone read the Kane Chronicles? I've never read Percy Jackson, But I've read the Kane Chronicles. Supposedly they are pretty similar? 

Eh. *Tilts hand* Sort of?

[The Mask]

Read Magnus Chase first. Brisingr and Inheritance are massive.
The Kane Chronicles are quite similar plot and character-wise. Pretty basic save the world kinda thing.

[Jetthebinturong]

Alright so what are people looking forward to more? Magnus Chase or Trials of Apollo?

All I'm saying that Trials better contain Solangelo, Leo closure and Reyna closure. I think I'm more excited for Trials because its Apollo's point of view (the chapter titles are haikus XD), and there's probably Solangelo in it.

[Hickory]

Besides Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson and the Olympians, there's the Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase, correct? What are the other series? What's the Sword of Summer thing you're talking about, or Trials of Apollo?

[Jetthebinturong]

Trials of Apollo will be the final Percy Jackson series. It is five books set after Blood of Olympus (Apollo is an important character) and because of BoO things, Zeus makes Apollo mortal and strips him of his power then sends him to live as an ordinary teenager in New York city. He goes to CHB and the story progresses from there.

The Sword of Summer is the first Magnus Chase book.

Technically it's Percy Jackson then Kane Chronicles and then Heroes of Olympus but the order doesn't really matter so long as you read Percy Jackson first.

[The Mask]

When was this new series announced? I've never heard of it.

[Jetthebinturong]

I don't know when it was announced, but I've seen the announcement video and it's Rick talking about it live on stage so it's fairly safe to assume it's real.

EDIT: Apparently the first book will be called The Hidden Oracle.

[Cornflower MM]

I watched exactly one minute and eight seconds of that video before I couldn't take the screaming anymore. . . . But I think I'm most excited for Trails of Apollo.

[Jetthebinturong]

Magnus Chase disappoints me. Usually Rick is so accurate to the mythology but here Fenrir is called Fenris, Narfi is called Narvi, Jormungandr is called Jormungand, Freyr is called Frey. Ugh. And the Valkyries are supposed to be spirits, not humans.

[Cornflower MM]

That sucks!

[Hickory]

The one thing I hate about the PJ universe is Nico. Literally, by the third book that he's in he's an all knowing, super powered, and super smart demigod. Rick took a nerdy character and had a bunch of offscreen character development that somehow makes him better than Percy. I get the maturity part, but still! Erg.

I also found out that he's homosexual. Go Nico. (I'M NOT BEING BIASED!!!)

[Jetthebinturong]

That sucks!

It's a good story, but the mythological inaccuracies bug me to no end.

The one thing I hate about the PJ universe is Nico. Literally, by the third book that he's in he's an all knowing, super powered, and super smart demigod. I think that's kind of the point. He was forced to grow up too quickly. And he may have gained his knowledge from Hades himself, from what I understand, by TLO he's been in regular contact with Hades. Rick took a nerdy character and had a bunch of offscreen character development that somehow makes him better than Percy. I get the maturity part If you read between the lines of PJO and read the actual Heroes of Olympus series, he's really not that mature. Intelligent? Yes. Powerful? Certainly. But not mature., but still! Erg.

I also found out that he's homosexual. Go Nico. (I'M NOT BEING BIASED!!!)

[Hickory]

FINISHED BoO!!! GO LEO AND CALYPSO!!!

Team Leo! Whoot whoot!

[Cornflower MM]

The one thing I hate about the PJ universe is Nico. Literally, by the third book that he's in he's an all knowing, super powered, and super smart demigod. Rick took a nerdy character and had a bunch of offscreen character development that somehow makes him better than Percy. I get the maturity part, but still! Erg.

I also found out that he's homosexual. Go Nico. (I'M NOT BEING BIASED!!!)

. . . . . . *Shell shocked silence*

You're dead to me.