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Has anyone noticed that most "modern-day-kid-exposed-to-mythology" books feature a protagonist who has somehow read about that mythology before getting exposed to it? I mean, is it really necessary? Or are most authors simply sticking to Rick Riordan's formula too closely?
If we look at the MC's in books like The Flame of Olympus, Loki's Wolves, The Serpent's Secret, Aru Shah and the End of Time, and The Storm Runner, they all know their mythology long before the gods/ monsters start popping up around them. I thought all of these books were executed reasonably well, though, except perhaps The Storm Runner, where the MC just happened to own a Maya mythology book without knowing why he had it. The book seemed to be there just to give the MC an excuse to shout "I read about this in my mythology book" every five seconds.
Do you suppose it's more challenging for the author to write an MC who's clueless about the creatures that attack him and doesn't tell us "I remember reading about that creature in my mythology book!" all the time?
If we look at the MC's in books like The Flame of Olympus, Loki's Wolves, The Serpent's Secret, Aru Shah and the End of Time, and The Storm Runner, they all know their mythology long before the gods/ monsters start popping up around them. I thought all of these books were executed reasonably well, though, except perhaps The Storm Runner, where the MC just happened to own a Maya mythology book without knowing why he had it. The book seemed to be there just to give the MC an excuse to shout "I read about this in my mythology book" every five seconds.
Do you suppose it's more challenging for the author to write an MC who's clueless about the creatures that attack him and doesn't tell us "I remember reading about that creature in my mythology book!" all the time?
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