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legendaryevokercupcake · 1 year

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Reasons I don't like Rick Riordan:

Chiron's characterization. This son of a titan raised so many actual, mythological Greek heroes (Achilles, Patroclus, Odysseus, Heracles, Jason, I could go on) and he did it damn well. He's not just gonna send a bunch of kids into a war with absolutely zero context on it, and he's not just going to abandon them when they leave camp. If you want to write a book about Greek mythology, taking characters from Greek mythology, then maybe you should actually read some Greek mythology.

Nico's existence. Hades is famous for being the one guy who never cheated on his wife. The one person who tried to sleep with him got turned into a mint plant. Nico cannot exist in Greek mythology because Hades would never sleep with Maria.

Athena having kids. Athena is a maiden goddess. She doesn't sleep with men. She thus cannot have biological children. Even if we are going the magic route, she still likely wouldn't even give a man a second (or let's be honest, first) glance.

Ares wouldn't lose. Ares wouldn't lose to an experienced fighter like Heracles or Achilles, he won't lose to some random kid, even if the kid IS a child of Poseidon.

His one Muslim character worships a god who is not Allah. This is against Muslim religion. She is a Valkyrie. This is against Muslim religion. She takes off her hijab in front of men who are not her biological and/or legal family. This is against Muslim religion.

He blocked fans who asked him (politely) to apologize, explain or even acknowledge his wrongdoings.

I could make more of these if people want them. I'm autistic and one of my fixations is Greek mythology (Notably NOT Percy Jackson) so I know a thing or two, and I'm literally part Scandinavian so I can slander Magnus Chase with my whole heart and soul.

If you want a good Norse mythology book, read the Iron Druid series. Leif is an absolute icon and his relationship with Hal is everything you could want in a ship, platonic or romantic. Atticus' dog is adorable and, as much as Atticus himself irritates me sometimes,

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devourerofcheesecake · 1 year

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I’m listening to Trapped by Kevin Hearne and THE CLOWN SCENE OMG. I get that the elves needed to have an excuse to block the Forrest, so making a parade was the best option, BUT THEY DECIDED TO DRESS UP AS CLOWNS. I love the idea that they were performing for the kids too. The elves can be assassins and still be entertaining for the kids.

Ok but where did they get that much clown makeup??? They have dark skin, they would need a LOT of white makeup.

I also love the idea that the group in the sports store were arguing which ropes were inorganic but still flammable. They can’t have Atticus unbinding his way out, but they also need it to burn for an extra good measure.

I was having a good time with the book so far, but dark elves in clown costumes is just-

Amazing. Inspired. I love it MFKFKGKGK

#iron druid chronicles

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bornitereads · 2 years

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Hexed - Kevin Hearne

The Iron Druid Chronicles Book 2

Reread: Aug 2022

This series is very episodic. Not necessarily in a bad way, but you definitely feel it with this one. The plot doesn't really seem have a larger purpose in the series (maybe later who knows?) except to set some things up for later books. But I did enjoy it, and the world building was fun. I liked learning about witches in this world, which the main thing in this book. Dealing with evil witches and making friends with friendly ones.

A lot of "witches traffic with demons" stuff in here, which is fine since it was an indication of being evil and not just a boorish stereotype. Although there are witch hunters who show up to cleanse the witches and are, as usual, awful religious zealots. Although they used Kabbalistic magic so that was fun to see.

The final battle scene was pretty fun. I especially liked it when the good witches started kicking ass. We love righteous magic users schooling the baddies.

Info: Del Rey, 2011

#hexed #kevin hearne #iron druid chronicles #fantasy #fiction #urban fantasy

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nate-faust-files · 1 year

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Just started book one of the Iron Druid Chronicles! It's called Hounded and it's only 25 chapters! You might be able to find it in your local library, especially If you live in Arizona, where it takes place!

#iron druid chronicles #whoo!!

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jurakan · 1 year

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The thing that bugs me about modern fiction that depicts mythology with more violence on immortal characters (like gods killing each other left and right) is that it’s inconsistent with the mythology.

So like, in the Greek era of the God of War series or the movie Immortals, we see that gods and titans can kill each other in combat, and are perfectly willing to do so! Which makes you wonder why they didn’t in the first place. Why would the gods lock the titans in Tartarus when they could just.. kill them instead? Why wouldn’t they just get rid of their enemies if that was an option? Why did they never do this to each other in the myths?

Or you have things set in modern day, like Iron Druid Chronicles, where it uses Irish and Norse mythology, in which these figures can get killed! But you have characters like Bres who we’re told repeatedly is stupid, useless, and not very well liked (to the point that his wife was planning to have him offed), and yet you’re telling me that no one bothered to kill him? Why? This guy was a pain in everyone’s collective butt in a warrior-god society and they let him have a position of prominence for over two thousand years when killing him was always an option???

Anyway.

#mythology #Hot Take Tuesday #God of War #Immortals #Iron Druid Chronicles

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belghast · 1 year

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Fifteen Books

Fifteen Books - This morning I give further updates on my reading journey as I talk about Red Seas Under Red Skies, Hounded, and Kaiju Preservation Society

Good Morning Friends! It has been a bit since I gave an update on my reading journey, so I figured I might as well close out the week with one. At this point, I’ve read fifteen books and am currently working on my sixteenth. As sad as this sounds, this is more books than I have ever read in any given year at any point in my life. Traditionally I am at max a five-books-a-year sort of person save…

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#Am Reading #Book Talk #Gentleman Bastards #Hounded #Iron Druid Chronicles #John Scalzi #Kevin Hearne #Lies of Locke Lamora #Red Seas Under Red Skies #Scott Lynch #The Kaiju Preservation Society

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incorrectspquotes · 4 months

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"You know what sucks about prophecies? They never predict anything fun. Just once I’d like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin’ Camaro on a game show.'"

Valkyrie Cain, probably.

#skulduggery pleasant #valkyrie cain #source: the iron druid chronicles

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noodlenoises · 9 months

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54 Urban Fantasy Story Ideas to Trigger Your Creativity

(Thank you Patrons for voting for this post!) I got really stoned and spent hours just kinda reflecting on my place in the universe. Listened to some podcasts. Browsed r/nyc. And eventually came up with these 54 urban fantasy writing prompts. 👇🏾

I asked beloved Patrons which post they’d like to see next, and it looks like the beloveds would like some urban fantasy prompts this time around! Whether you write tons of urban fantasy and are just looking for some new ideas, or you’re brand new and looking to get inspired, I’m bringing you 54 urban fantasy story prompts for your beautiful brain meat. I’ve done this before with other genres. A…

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ididntknowwhattocallthis · 7 months

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I'm rereading The Iron Druid Chronicles for the first time since I was like 13, and now that I finally understand ALL the sexual innuendo I'm just wondering; do allos really think about sex that often?? Is this just an Atticus thing or do all people who have a moderately high sex drive think about it whenever they look at someone they find attractive?

I don't remember the books from Oberon's perspective being quite so... innuendo laden. I hope I'm remembering that correctly and it's not just part of how Kevin Hearne writes.

#the iron druid chronicles #asexual #kevin hearne #Atticus O'Sullivan #ace spec

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funnybookquotez · 2 years

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Atticus: We may have a faery tail.

Oberon: Yeah! This is the kind of faery tale with children who wander off and get in trouble in the forest. Usually they die because they don't have a wolfhound along-or parents. You ever notice the rampant child neglect going on in faery tales?

Atticus: No, Oberon, I said we might have a faery tail, as in a faery who is tailing us.

Oberon: English is stupid sometimes.

#source: trapped by kevin hearne #series: the iron druid chronicles #funny book quotes #book quotes #books #atticus o’sullivan

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the-oddest-inkling · 2 years

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I am currently reading the first novel of the “Iron Druid Chronicles” and after a couple of pages in, I came to the conclusion, that Atticus O’Sullivan is either a Mary Sue or a self-insert character. Or both.

#The Iron Druid Chronicles #kevin hearne #atticus o'sullivan

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devourerofcheesecake · 1 year

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I just reread (or relistened, it’s an audio book) Hammered and AHHHHHH!!!

The ending always gets me everytime. In terms of the Iron Druid chronicles, it’s not the BEST book. Hammered was more to set up the big plot points for the rest of the series, and it’ doesn’t pull on my strings. Aside from the Serpent tale it doesn’t really hit me hard.

The one part that twists the knife is the epilogue:

It’s hinted repeatedly Lady Macdonagh isn’t doing great. She takes a long trip to the doctors, Oberon says she talks about her health problems, ect. She lives alone with her cats. Her children are waiting for her inheritance. She’s entirely dependent on the local young Irish lad to help her with yard work and bring her conversation. The worst part is she deserves none of this. She’s a sweet lady with a sharp wit; her only downfall being her love of whiskey and her hatred of the British. She’s been through so much which makes the prospect of her death gut wrenching.

When Atticus comes back from killing Thor, we expect the last goodbye, or at least a tearful embrace. But instead Oberon is running out of the house as fast as he can. He’s telling Atticus to step on the gas and to not look back.

The widow is gone, there is something else in her body. She died in her sleep, Oberon is sure. But moments later he hears the doors creak, and it smells like decay. Walking back into the room, the dog sees the old lady rise once again. She doesn’t talk. She doesn’t drink her whiskey. No church. No reminiscing of her dead husband. She used to talk to the dog about whatever pranced through her mind, but now she just stands there and watches silently.

Just a corpse. Its fucking horrifying. I get chills thinking about it each time. It sets up the consequences of killing thor, and the idea of skin walkers and I ADORE IT.

#poor Oberon is getting fed by the goodness of death #imagine a creature haunting the nice old lady and filling the house with the smell of decay #and instead of killing you the creature feeds you kibble #we don’t know how long ago it Hel started to hangout in Macdonagh #this could’ve been going on for a whole ass week #Macdonagh did NOT DESREVE THIS #I hope she went to heaven ‘mellow’ at least #iron druid chronicles #Athena rants

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bornitereads · 2 years

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Hammered - Kevin Hearne

The Iron Druid Chronicles Book 3

Reread: Aug - Sep 2022

You know, I noticed doing the posts for this series that Hearne churned these three books out all in the same year. We'll probably not if I think about it. But they were all published in the same year. Makes me wonder if Hearne had them all written while looking for a publisher.

Anyways, the title for this book, Hammered, is so funny to me. Mostly because it's so on the nose. The whole plot of this book is about a revenge mission to Asgard to kill Thor (hence hammer references). There's a lot, a lot of old Norse mythology in here. Which is kind of interesting, but also, for me, not that interesting at all. I don't know what it is but I really don't feel any inspiration from Norse mythology. It's just there and I am not particularly inclined to pick it up. But people in the English speaking world seem, in general, to like it. Probably helped along by the Marvel Thor movies. A fact not missed by Hearne who at least mentions that the comic book Thor is a real version of Thor in this world. But on the other hand Hearne explicitly casts Thor as a the biggest douche to ever douche. Everyone hates him (possibly including the other Æsir).

This whole escapade goes down badly for the Asgardians. Not to say they didn't inflict losses on the other side, but man this shit fucked them up. There's a lot of implying that this will create problems when Ragnarok comes. Which I found interesting that the world end is the Norse one. Like doesn't every other mythology have a different apocalypse? So why is Ragnarok the big one? I don't know. Probably just for the drama haha. There is a lot of time spent on arrangements for fleeing and going into hiding for our main characters. Which is maybe interesting, but I can't remember if it works even.

The other thing I liked was the vampire lore for this world. Huge vampire slut here so I like to know about a world's vampires. I especially liked how only the brain and the heart looked alive/magical in magic vision and that the Druid thinks those are resurrection engines to heal almost anything, even the loss of one of the other centres. Food for thought I guess haha.

Something I didn't like at all, was there was a noticable amount of "hyuck hyuck masculinity." It made it painfully obvious the book was written by a straight man. I seriously didn't understand why modern "but we're men" toxic bullshit was something millennium old magical beings felt at all. But you can't escape the biases of the author I guess.

Info: Del Rey, 2011

#hammered #kevin hearne #iron druid chronicles #fantasy #fiction #urban fantasy

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jurakan · 12 days

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In terms of "Ways to make your protagonist sympathetic," I advise against "Make actual Jesus pop up and talk about how way cool he is and also validate all of my opinions," as a writing idea.

#Iron Druid Chronicles #Kevin Hearne

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thethirdgenesisbooks · 2 months

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What is Magipunk?

Magipunk (also called Magepunk, Spellpunk, Aetherpunk, or Dungeonpunk) is a genre of fantasy taking place in a world where all the technology runs on magic. Combustion engines in such a setting may only work because of fire elementals inside, or instead of telephones people may have circlets that allow them to communicate telepathically with someone far away. In such a setting, magic is not some mysterious force, it is a science that has been honed to make life easier.

The roots of magipunk can be traced back to a blend of genres, primarily fantasy, steampunk, and cyberpunk. Elements of high fantasy, such as wizards and magical artifacts, are paired with the gritty, dystopian settings typical of cyberpunk or steampunk. The resulting genre is a captivating fusion of the supernatural and the mechanical.

Like its parent genres, magipunk often explores themes of power, corruption, and the human condition. Characters navigate a world where magic is both a blessing and a curse, where technology brings progress but also danger. Furthermore, such technology often raises questions such as “just what makes us human?” and “Even if someone is not human, can they still be a person?” These themes are often underscored by rich world-building, intricate plots, and captivating character development.

The appeal of magipunk lies in its ability to blend fantastical elements with familiar settings. A wizard may walk with a staff and wear a pointed hat as he walks into a private detective’s office. Lightning elementals powering a city’s grid might cause a major crisis when they go on strike. A dark lord may rise to threaten the world with his army of steam-powered robots. It offers a fresh take on traditional fantasy tropes while exploring themes that resonate with modern audiences.

Some popular books that fall into this genre include “Mistborn” by Brandon Sanderson, “Mage Against the Machine” by Shaun Barger, or “The Iron Druid Chronicles” by Kevin Hearne.

My own fantasy series, “The Third Genesis,” also falls into this category. It has automatons (robots) powered by magical cores, people send messages instantly through enchanted wooden boxes called “bendboxes,” and there are airships that fly because of enchantments placed on them.

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meilas · 3 months

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help me find a book I will enjoy!

I used to read all the time. Now I don’t. I’m in the middle of Golden Compass, Once and Future King, Jewel of the Seven Stars, Hamlet, and The Time Machine because I lost interest in all of them. @brendadaaedestler suggested that I just need to find a book that I will enjoy. The trouble is, I don’t know what I like. Help a guy out? If you’d like, you can leave your suggestions in the comments.

loved:

Frankenstein

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The Hidden Cave (by Ruth Chew)

liked:

House on the Cerulean Sea

Treasure Island

Rats of Nimh series

The Tripods trilogy

Harry Potter (no longer interested in)

Count of Monte Cristo

Phantom of the Opera (this should be between loved and liked)

Iron Druid Chronicles (odd that I liked it considering it is first person POV)

All Creatures Great and Small series (by James Herriot, odd that I liked them considering they are basically autobiographies and in first person POV)

okay:

Lord of the Rings

Moby Dick

Dracula

Pride&Prejudice

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (this one is actually between okay and didn’t like)

Hunger Games trilogy (odd that I was okay with it considering it is first person POV)

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

The Wishing Tree (by Ruth Chew)

didn’t like:

Hobbit

Peter Pan

Island of Doctor Moreau

Stranger in a Strange Land (my dad made me read this when I was 12 and it fucked me up for years)

Howl’s Moving Castle + its sequels

hated:

The Pearl

Catcher in the Rye

Golden Compass (I'm not even done reading it and I hate it)

Romeo&Juliet

I hope I will like:

Don Quixote (I like the movie)

automatic no/will not read:

anything written in first person (looking at you Catcher in the Rye)

anything where the narrator interrupts the story to give you information and reminds you that this is a story (looking at you Peter Pan)

anything with a trans character as the focus (I’m trans, I don’t want to read about someone with gender dysphoria, it will just make me more depressed)

anything with robots as a character

what I liked about the books I liked:

likeable multidimensional characters (House on the Cerulean Sea)

characters went on adventures! (Treasure Island, Hidden Cave, 20,000 Leagues)

human nature and humanity (Frankenstein, 20,000 Leagues, Count of Monte Cristo, Phantom of the Opera, Moby Dick)

#books

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