Grover!

On my post from a few days ago, a lot of you commented saying how happy you are that Grover is going to be returning in The House of Hades. I am so excited too, so I just wanted to talk a little bit about it!

First of all, how do you think he will be presented?

This is where I run into the most confusion. There will probably be a scene or two at Camp Half-Blood because Octavian and Reyna are invading, but how are they going to portray that? No one at Camp Half Blood is going to narrate. The three things I could think of are:

1) They see it through a dream
2) They see it through an Iris Message
3) They see it through Katoptris (Piper's/Helen of Troy's Knife)

Or, could it have something to do with the empathy link between him and Percy? Does that work even in the depths of Tartarus? Will Grover sense that they're in danger?

Do you think Grover will have more of a leadership position?

I don't know if they are going to go that in depth on him, but do you think Grover would have a leadership position in camp now? He's been on a bunch of quests, he found Pan, and did a whole lot of other stuff.

Is it possible Grover won't be at Camp?

Grover is constantly off spreading the word about Pan's death. Is it possible he will run into the 6 (the 7 minus Percy and Annabeth plus Nico)? Or something like that?

I hope Grover has a good scene! Maybe he and Coach Hedge will share a Satyr moment :)

Another thing: Rick also said in that same Q&A that Nico will have a crucial role in The House of Hades. We all already knew this. but that leads me to the question: Will Nico narrate? I'm pretty sure when I did my post a while back on who will narrate, I said I think Nico will, and this makes me believe it more.

Thanks for Reading and sorry about my negligence lately :(

The Challenge Continues!

You all know that I am not participating in my own challenge...:(, however I hope some of you are!

I really want to know if anyone is, because I will credit you in one of these posts!

I'm going to do another post either today or tomorrow, so check back soon!

PS - I hit 10,000 views! Oh my Gods! Thank you Greek God of Internet Blogs :D

From Rick's Blog!

Rick posted his Q&A from Twitter the other day. Here are the ones I found interesting!

Check out the rest at rickriordan.blogspot.com

EDIT: OMG I JUST WROTE A HUGE THING AND IT ALL GOT DELETED!

Instead of retyping it all, I'm just going to give you the summaries of the ones I liked.

He said that we will get Reyna's surname in The House of Hades

He said Grover will make an appearance in The House of Hades

He said nothing could possibly be a bigger cliffhanger than that in The Mark of Athena

I encourage you all to go and read the rest; it's not the best Q&A he's done, but there are some good ones.

Again, I'm so sorry, but I am not going to be participating in MY OWN challenge.

I feel bad, but I just don't have the time. Congratulations, though, are in order for everyone who has been successful thus far. You guys are better than me. Any of you who are successful, please comment telling me so I can credit you! If you want to remain anonymous, comment anonymously and make up a name! At least you will know that it's you!

Thanks for Reading!

I Hate This!

This is so annoying!

I've just been bombarded with work for so long! I can't find time to write a post, let alone read the book for the challenge.

I'm going to try my hardest to find time, but just in case I don't, here is a message for anyone participating in the challenge:

If any one of you wants to write about The Red Pyramid after this week is over, please let me know ASAP! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to read it, so any of you willing to do this would help a ton!

Thanks for Reading, and I really am sorry guys!

The Kane Chronicles Challenge!

The Kane Chronicles Challenge has Begun!

You have one week to read each book of the Kane Chronicles.
At the end of each week I will post my reaction/review of the book!

THIS WEEK: THE RED PYRAMID

Good Luck!

Thanks for Reading!

The Sea of Monsters (Movie) Update!

The Sea of Monsters Movie's release date has been changed. It is now going into theatres on August 7th (instead of August 16th)!

The main purpose of this was to open in a weekend without any major competition.

Sorry for not posting about this earlier.

Thanks for Reading (and be sure to read my other post from today, below)

Book 1 vs. Book 1!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting too much, I really have been overloaded with work.

This is the reader-submitted post I was talking about; I got an email giving me the idea to compare The Lightning Thief to The Lost Hero, The Sea of Monsters to The Son of Poseidon, and so forth.

I'm going to just compare the first ones now, but if I think it works out well, I will do the other two.

Characters

In both books, we were introduced to three new main characters (Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, and Jason, Leo, and Piper). In both books, there was one character who had absolutely no idea what was going on for a while (Percy and Jason). In both books, there were two boys, and a girl. Yes, many of you are probably saying something like, "yeah, well, if you wanted to, you could say 'they all had eyes too,' but that doesn't prove anything." And yes, you are right, but I am trying to point out the similarities. Anyways, in both books, one of the three was a child of the Big Three. Also, in both books, one of the three ''did not belong'' (Grover's a Satyr, and Jason's a Roman)

Conflict

In both books, it was clear that this quest was the start of something bigger. A half-blood of the eldest gods... and ...the seven shall birth; it was clear that these were going to influence the Great Prophecies. Also, both books had a personal goal involved in the quest. Percy wanted to free his mother, while Jason wanted to figure out his identity. Then you have the obvious similarities of things such as both quests were led by the child of the Big 3, and so on.

I don't really know what other categories to throw in, so if you guys could comment what I should add, and if you liked it, it will help a ton. (If you tell me something to add, I will update this post and let you all know)

But, one other similarity that comes to my mind is that in both books, the main character (Percy and Jason) is being played by the gods. Percy was being accused of being the lightning thief, and Jason was part of Hera's plans to unite the camps.