Rick Riordan

Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero is an engrossing start that improves upon what came before. Though I liked the Percy Jackson series, it feels like an early work in comparison to this. Everything that made the first series fun remains. The mix of mythology and the everyday world is…

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series that embodies many of enjoyable aspects of YA fiction and fantasy. The difference between this volume and the first is pretty vast in my opinion. The development of the author is clear throughout the series, more so than in similar sagas. Writers…

The Titan’s Curse is better than it predecessors and sets up the next entries nicely. Where the last book was weighed down by lackluster stakes, this one brings the conflicts to a new level of urgency. The plot grows in every chapter and the power of the main villain is…

Nothing beats a good adventure story.  Whether it’s the adventure of discovery like in Ringworld, the adventure of slaying a dragon in The Hero and The Crown, or a hybrid like Brave Story, you can get into these journeys so long as they are done well. Which is why, though…