Chatterbox: Blab About Books

Attack on the Percy Jackson world.

Yes, I am about to cricize one of the most popular series of books ever. Let's keep this reasonable, peeps.

So, in the original Percy Jackson series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, there is almost no original material besides adaption of myths. It was, however, a very interesting book.

But they still lacked some of the originality that went into the Kane Chronicles. I thought the Kane Chronicles were by far better. Not only was Chronicles shorter, but had much more belivable characters. They had more depth.

I find the characters in Olympians much more flat, and they develop their own cliche. Percy is the "hero", Anabeth is the "smart person" and Grover is the "weird person".

Though flawed, Olympians was a good five book series. But there are now two more series.  But he had to write Heros of Olympus. Heros had the same action and flaws, but on a larger scale. It was too long, and really pushed the boundaries of the world: how do we not remember this? We forget it. That is his explanation of how his world fits inside ours. It is unrealistic, and should be updated. 

With Magnus Chase, he explores another world, but in the first few chapters connects it to Jackson's world. An admiriable failure.

With the new series Trials of Apollo, he makes another installation for Jackson's world that wasn't needed.

In conclusion, I think the series is longer than necessary, the characters are weak, and the plot predictable. So far, no major characters have 'died" and stayed dead. Magnus Chase couldn't stay dead, and he was killed. I wish some better characters were made, some more exciting plots, and old characters taken out.