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Helldenzian wrote: I was reading the discussions about it just now...

And sorry for my French but, it's really a BS. I actually laughed because of a how crap it is.

Did you stop to read other books Riordan writes, completely? Or you were disappointed, so you did give some break? Stopped completely. He just becomes more and more political with each book so that it's not even recognizable as written by the same man of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Why should I read 300+ pages of:

-Alex and proper pronouns. Use the proper pronouns. USE THE PROPER PRONOUNS YOU IGNORANT SH**!

-Sam is Muslim. Look at her doing Muslim things. She wears a hijab. She wears a hijab. Look, this is the Muslim holiday blah blah blah. Norse? What Norse? This series is Magnus Chase and the Servant of Allah. Let's stop the plot as I insert a long, drawn out Muslim prayer. Did I mention she was Muslim?

-Hi, I'm Apollo! My son Will is dating a boy. This is so normal that I feel the need to call this out for several paragraphs as I lecture the reader for something they are probably not guilty of aka Homophobia.

-This is Amir, Sam's betrothed from an arranged marriage. Arranged marriage is cool. It's super cool. Don't ever think it's not cool ignorant butt. Hey, it's that Amir kid who is Sam's betrothed. They are betrothed because they are #Muslim. You didn't forget Sam was Muslim, did you?

-Wow, look at all these great books on Randolph's shelf. Except they aren't great because white male authors wrote them (wait, I'm a white male author, wut?).

-Pottery Barn is non-binary. Ooh, that's a big word, let's not get lost 9-year-olds reading this book. I'm sure you won't though. Because non-binary is something you should totally be concerning yourself about at such a young age. Nope, not confusing at all.

-I need seven heroes for my prophecy. We obviously need Percy and Annabeth but what about the others. Let's see... token black person (Hazel). Check. Token hispanic person (Leo). Check. Token Native American person (Piper). Check. Token Asian person (Frank). Check. Eh, we might as well throw a new white person in just to make sure my tokenism isn't to obvious (Jason). Check.

I could probably list more but this is turning into a rant.