Rick Riorden

I freaking love Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus series. I started the Percy Jackson series when I was in fourth grade. After the first book, I completely fell in love with it. I got lost in those books, and I didn’t mind. I really didn’t want to be found. Then a couple years ago, Rick Riorden came out with a sequel series to Percy Jackson and they were just as good, maybe even better. In total, it took me a total of 6 years to read all ten books. This is because of how long it took for each one to be released. Although that was very annoying, it was well worth the wait. The problem with it though, is how big of an ass Rick Riorden was during all that time.

            Just so that you don’t get mad at me, there might be a few spoilers in this blog, just a forewarning.

            During the time that he was writing the last five books of the whole Percy Jackson adventure, Rick decided that he wanted to be a complete dick to all of his fans. Now I get it, he wants to create suspense for his readers, but what he did was too far. He caused complete mayhem for the whole Percy Jackson fandom.

            For example, it was right after the third book was released. He waited a little to let the whole United States read what he wrote. He ended the book with Percy and Annabeth falling to Tartarus (deepest part of the underworld). After completely shocking everyone with this huge cliff hanger, he decides to send out a tweet. It said, “I am contemplating on killing off Annabeth.” You can’t just do that! Why would he do that to all of his readers?! After five years, Percy and Annabeth finally started dating, and he told everyone that he was going to kill Annabeth right after their relationship just started.  It’s complete bullshit!!!!!! Thankfully he didn’t do that, but still!

            That’s just one example of the hell that he put us through. It is probably the cruelest one. I just wanted to give everyone a taste of what a monster Rick Riorden is.