This is my Riordanverse shrine. It focuses on the main five series that make up the bulk of the canon story: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (PJO), Heroes of Olympus (HoO), Trials of Apollo (ToA), Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (MCGA), and The Kane Chronicles (KC). This is book canon only, not the show or anything else, so keep that in mind as you read. All you need to know if you're also a fan is that Leah looks incredible as Annabeth.

The sections on each series are ordered the way I have them on my bookshelf. Why is KC after MCGA on there, you ask? Because 80% of my collection is paperback and KC just so happens to be 75% of that 80%. Listen, I got them second-hand. One of the books wasn't even on the store's shelf and a worker had to go to the back for me. I'm making do as best I can.

Main series only currently, so no supplemental materials like Demigod Files or Camp Half-Blood Confidential.

It starts out simple. It does not end simple. This is also not a timeline of when things happen in canon. May the gods have mercy on my soul for when I attempt to make that.

• PJO: The Lightning Thief - June 28, 2005
• PJO: The Sea of Monsters - May 3, 2006
• PJO: The Titan's Curse - May 1, 2007
• PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth - May 6, 2008
• PJO: The Last Olympian - May 5, 2009
• KC: The Red Pyramid - May 4, 2010
• HoO: The Lost Hero - October 12, 2010
• KC: The Throne of Fire - May 3, 2011
• HoO: The Son of Neptune - October 4, 2011
• KC: The Serpent's Shadow - May 1, 2012
• HoO: The Mark of Athena - October 2, 2012
• HoO: The House of Hades - October 8, 2013
• HoO: The Blood of Olympus - October 7, 2014
• MCGA: The Sword of Summer - October 6, 2015
• ToA: The Hidden Oracle - May 3, 2016
• MCGA: The Hammer of Thor - October 4, 2016
• ToA: The Dark Prophecy - May 2 2017
• MCGA: The Ship of the Dead - October 3, 2017
• ToA: The Burning Maze - May 1, 2018
• ToA: The Tyrant's Tomb - September 24, 2019
• ToA: The Tower of Nero - October 6, 2020

The first. The classic. The one I know best and the one that will always hold a special place in my heart.

PJO follows the journey of Percy Jackson, with the first book being written for Rick's son Haley. It's told through a first-person perspective, which adds a lot of character to the narration. We watch as Percy grows from a fresh-faced twelve year old to a sixteen year old with the fate of the world in his hands. I reread this one a lot as a kid, it was the only one of these five series I owned until I was an adult. I even managed to crack the spine of my hardcover copy of The Last Olympian, that's how much I read them.

Part of the reason PJO (and by extension, the rest of the universe as a whole) means so much to me is due to the fact that I'm a lot like Percy. I was eight when I found out that the man I had known as a father was actually my step-father, and I has never really known my biological father. That was around the time I was really getting into the series. Plus, I'm diagnosed with ADHD. Since most of the cast had it too, it was nice to see myself represented.

Third-person POV my beloathed.

HoO is the sequel series to PJO. It's written from alternating third-person perspectives, probably due to the sheer number of them throughout all the books. By the time you've finished The Blood of Olympus, you've read nine different POVs. While the choice to have so many perspectives makes sense, and allows the reader to see more of what's going on across a wider spread of events, I think it would have been better had each POV stayed in first-person.

One thing HoO does from the beginning that PJO distinctly didn't do is give more diversity to its cast, in multiple senses of the word. While KC was actually the first of Rick's books to do soemthing like this, HoO has a cast of seven (or nine, depending on how you count) main characters:

• Jason Grace
• Piper McLean
• Leo Valdez
• Percy Jackson
• Annabeth Chase
• Hazel Levesque
• Frank Zhang
• Nico di Angelo
• Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano

Of these nine, only four could be considered white: Jason, Percy, Annabeth, and Nico. With the latter three of them being introduced in the first series, and Jason being related to another character in PJO, a reading of them as white makes a lot of sense and for most, if not all, of them tends to be the dominant perception.

The other five are canonically from different cultural backgrouds. Each of them are American (minus Frank), but Piper is Cherokee, Leo and Reyna are Latino, I believe is the proper term, Hazel is Black, and Frank is Chinese Canadian.

I am, unfortunately, painfully white. I can't exactly speak to the quality of the representation on the cultural side, but I've heard both good and bad from the groups they are intended to represent. The representation I can speak to is the queer rep, however. While multiple of the Seven/Nine are queer, and at least one other has queer subtext, I will be focusing on Nico specifically in the HoO section as he is the only one to come out in HoO.

And speaking of Nico's coming out, it's a perfect example of the worst way to do so. Intentionally so, I might add, the book does not frame this in a positive light. He's forcibly outed by Eros, in order to progress on their quest. Nico is bitter about this, he is distraught, he was not ready to come out.

He's also the first canonically queer character in the entire series, written years before gay marriage was legalized in the U.S.

Nico's coming out was handled flawlessly in my eyes, due to the way the characters react to this forced confession.

Give me more of him. Apollo is the best. See what I did there?

ToA gives us a god falling from Olympus to fix his mistakes. Apollo's narration isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I can understand that. He starts out as a whiny, egotistical, self-centered character who wants everything handed to him on a silver platter. It can be grating, especially after ten books of characters who don't back down from a single challenge.

Apollo's journey is also a masterpiece. In just one read-through, ToA means nearly as much to me as the original PJO.

The end of The Burning Maze and beginning of The Tyrant's Tomb in particular mean something incredibly personal to me. I read those sections just seven months after the death of my grandfather, someone who was a large part of making me who I am today. Jason's death and funeral are among the few things in media to make me cry. When reading, I actually had to take a small break during that section because of the emotions it brought up.

Another thing I enjoyed in The Tyrant's Tomb, of perhaps a more controversial nature, is the way it handled Frank cheating death. His life force was tied to a piece of firewood, and once the firewood burned up, he would die. In a battle to protect Camp Jupiter, he sacrifices himself by starting a massive fire with his wood. He then walks away, still alive.

It's not fair, that Frank lived and Jason died. But instead of ignoring it and brushing it away, Rick has the characters acknowledge that no, it isn't fair. Unfortunately, that's just how life works sometimes.

Something else that makes ToA dear to my heart is the expansion of the queer rep. Piper gains a girlfriend, and Reyna is revealed as on either the aro or ace spectrums, with my personal headcanon being that she's aroace. As someone who's aroace, her laughing in Apollo's face when he put forth the idea of them dating is incredible. And some characters are introduced right off the bat as queer, including Apollo himself! ToA is dripping with amazing, fantastic queer rep of different sexualities.

The third blond to die in as many series. It's become a pattern.

MCGA brings us a new pantheon to explore through the eyes of Magnus Chase, cousin to Annabeth Chase.

NYC seems to be getting real cramped...

KC focuses on a set of siblings who become hosts for a couple of gods.