My review of Rick Riordan’s The Mark of Athena is up at the Hugo-award winning SFSignal.com. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: The third book in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series joins Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon),...
How do you continue a series that has ended, without making it droll, repetitive, unimaginative? (See the twelfth SF Signal podcast for a discussion on series that have gone on too long). You simply...
The movie The Lightning Thief, has excellent special effects (Hades in the fire and looking like an old rock musician is well done) and tells the story of Percy Jackson, half human, half Olympian...
The Last Olympian is a well written ending to an excellent series, with the promise of more to come. The prophesized battle between the Olympic Gods and the Titans starts in the first chapter,...
While waiting for Riordan’s next Percy Jackson novel The Last Olympian, readers can get their Percy fix with The Demigod Files, a collection of short stories and interviews. While short (133 pages excluding pictures,...
Of the three main young adult series I have read (Twilight and Potter being the other two), Riordan’s is faster paced, funnier and brings out more history/mythology than the other two. Very enjoyable and...
In this third book in the series, Thalia, daughter of Zeus, brought back to health by the Golden Fleece (her essence was put into a tree after she saved Luke and Annabeth, two other...
The Sea of Monsters is the second book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Notes on the first book, The Lightning Thief, can be found here. Notes on the next book in the series,...
The Lightning Thief is book one in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. Writing for both the adult and young adult (YA) successfully is difficult, though many authors are trying to cross that...
Big Red Tequila is the first in a series of Tres Navarre novels, a semi-private investigator set in my home town of San Antonio. I’ve always enjoyed novels set in locations where I’ve been,...
