Although I enjoy Riordan's books greatly, his newest book in the Heroes of Olympus series disappointed me. Starting off the book, he did an awesome, spine-tingling job describing tartarus, the birth pit for all monsters. He then continued his story. But then, something he wrote disturbed me. He put in his story two, not one, but TWO homosexual characters. As a christian, I love the homosexual community-we are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:31). But this book was geared for kids, and he straight out said that a minor male god was in love with a male human, and that one of the male semi-main characters had a crush on another main male character. I was enjoying the book, but when I read that, I wanted to stop reading the rest of the book. Eventually, I did finish the House of Hades, and gladly discovered there was no more talk on that subject. And then I realized that he had never brought it up in ANY of his ELEVEN other books.
Now hear me out, Rick Riordan is a fabulous writer. He uses vivid imagery and develops his stories quite well, and this book was very good. However, I fell very disturbed, shaken, and sad knowing that he wrote this in his book. I am hopeful that his final book of the series, the Blood of Olympus, will not include any of this.
Rate: 3/5 stars
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