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Mar. 2nd, 2012 02:19 pmI thought after The Lost Hero that I was used to reading books by Rick Riordan that were not in first person!
And maybe that is true, but what I'm really not used to is reading Percy Jackson's POV in third person, which is probably I think the biggest thing that kept throwing me about The Son of Neptune.
Mind, I liked a lot of The Son of Neptune in principle. I loved Frank - I mean, of course I did, he's giant and clumsy and his soul is a piece of wood - and I like Hazel's story a lot too, although I really wish Rick Riordan were more consistent and had done more with her spoilery culture clash, because that could be so interesting and instead it's mostly ignored. (What I really want is fanfic that does lots with her spoilery culture clash, but I probably won't get it, because fandom never wants the same things I do. ;__;) Also, hey, the main romance of this book is an interracial romance involving no white people at all, which is rare enough that it gets some automatic points from me!
I'm also really interested in ( I guess this is technically spoilery for the first book )
And yet I spent a good third of the book just staring at the pages thinking about how I missed Percy's first-person narration, which is really not something I expected. OH WELL.
And maybe that is true, but what I'm really not used to is reading Percy Jackson's POV in third person, which is probably I think the biggest thing that kept throwing me about The Son of Neptune.
Mind, I liked a lot of The Son of Neptune in principle. I loved Frank - I mean, of course I did, he's giant and clumsy and his soul is a piece of wood - and I like Hazel's story a lot too, although I really wish Rick Riordan were more consistent and had done more with her spoilery culture clash, because that could be so interesting and instead it's mostly ignored. (What I really want is fanfic that does lots with her spoilery culture clash, but I probably won't get it, because fandom never wants the same things I do. ;__;) Also, hey, the main romance of this book is an interracial romance involving no white people at all, which is rare enough that it gets some automatic points from me!
I'm also really interested in ( I guess this is technically spoilery for the first book )
And yet I spent a good third of the book just staring at the pages thinking about how I missed Percy's first-person narration, which is really not something I expected. OH WELL.
