The Problem With Riordan Books Today Part 1

Shortly after I finished reading Demigods and Magicians, a collection of three short stories that merge two bestselling and memorable series about mythology into one crossover story. I felt a hugely disappointed by the short stories, partly I felt this feeling or plague of tiredness.

So I took this hypothesis and reread all the Riordan books, I own, which is a ton. A ton. I have two sets of the original Percy Jackson series and four extra copies. Then I have both of the Greek mythology books, Riordan did in 2014 and 2015, "Percy Jackson's Greek Gods," and "Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes." Then I have the entire Heroes of Olympus series, no extra copies yet, alongside the Demigod Diaries, The Serpent's Shadow, the final book in the Kane Chronicle trilogy, The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle, Magnus Chase: The Sword of Summer, of course Demigods and Magicians, and to top it all off, I own the graphic novels of The Sea of Monsters, The Lightning Thief, and The Red Pyramid, so overall you can say that I well aquatinted with these books, and are a huge fan of them. I began with that, so you understand where my feelings of "plague" are coming from.

Every single Riordan book I reread, gave me a feeling of "I'm sick of this," with every word. Even my favorite Riordan book, The House of Hades, began to lost its edge. The most noticeable feeling of plague was with the humor. Some Riordan books got me laughing, and others didn't have me even being amused. It felt like a poor attempt at a joke at a party, and everyone was staring at you after the punch line. Not to say the humor isn't terrible, it is fairly witty and can kick in a few laughs the first time you read, but only the first time. When you read it again that humor is gone, and once you read the lines of humor, you feel like your love of Riordan's literature falling down a pit. Here is my conclusion of why Rick Riordan books aren't as good as they used to be, it's kind of like continuing to play in a game you beat entirely, and you feel bored and not really entertained as you mash the buttons. The problem here is, there are far too many Riordan books. It is that simple, there are too many of them. Let's use Harry Potter for example, the series ended at seven books, although the script of the eighth story being turned into a play is being published, but even with eight installments, there is no point comparing the two series in how large they are.