tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post6242970484735201936..comments2024-03-21T21:37:03.772-05:00Comments on Series Books for Girls: The Lost Hero by Rick RiordanJennifer Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-91006546886777962302011-01-09T21:49:02.868-06:002011-01-09T21:49:02.868-06:00I actually think these books totally suck. I had m...I actually think these books totally suck. I had my own 'Olympus' Rick Raider book online for ten years, THE SEARCH FOR THE ETERNAL FLAME. It was about normal American teens who happened to get hijacked to a planet in another galaxy where the civilization was similar to the ancient Greek civilization on Earth. The 'similarities in the universe' and all that 1960s sci-fi rot....<br /><br />I wrote the book in the early 1980s when publishers were first asking for fantasy, paranormal, and sci-fi. The other two in the breeder set were earthbound normal mysteries. The books were intended as a boys companion set to the Susan Sand books, but Pinnacle got bought out by S&S, who had just gotten the Stratemeyer stuff, and immediately canceled Susan Sand (too much like Nancy Drew, even though much better) and, of course, did not want Rick Raider. Although they did ask Marilyn Ezzell and I to write for them (Drews and Hardys!) but we both said, 'Yucks No!'<br /><br />Since then, Fantasy has become the leading juvie genre, mostly because you don't have to be politically correct about non-humans. And everybody has been writing them, and they have just become so trite. I did enjoy the first two Harry Potters, but after that the books became the same, and the very same story kept being told over and over. I tried the Percey Jacksons but could not even get through the first one. I'm a hound for mystery and adventure, but fantasy with weird monsters popping out of nowhere (in a museum of all places!) and all the silliness that goes along with it is just too much.<br /><br />Riordan is a fantastic author. I read his adult detective novels set in the West and they are among the best. But I feel he's writing all this juvie fantasy drivel just to make a fast big buck - and he certainly is raking it in. Most writers of his calibre would never stoop so low as to writing these kind of books.<br /><br />I think the fantasy/paranormal whiz has gone on for long enough and that young people need to start reading again about real young people have real plausible adventures, not quasi-humans or already-dead ones flitting around in absurd fantasy worlds.<br /><br />Mikestratomikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037554947654294112noreply@blogger.com