I also find it rather irritating myself when plot ideas or elements were
clearly borrowed from other books, even when the author did! start with an
original idea.
Rick riordon's series of books about griek gods in the modern age for
instance, had a very unique idea, the half mortal, half devine children of
gods growing up in the modern world, with the griek gods brought into the
21st century. I absolutely loved to see the way he used concepts like the
titans, atlas etc, for instance having Aeres the griek god of war as a Biker
who goes around picking fights, and Nephestus god of the forge as a mechanic
who tinkers and creates sort of semi pulp style brass robotic automatons.
What however irritated me is that many of the actual elements of the ongoing
story were worryingly close to harry potter.for instance, a magical summer
camp where kids with half devine parents got unusual magical lessons, the
idea that there was some sort of prophecy about the main character and one
other character which will come true in a war when he is 17, and that this
prophecy resulted from a less than reliable seeress.
The way the final book delves heavily into the villains back story and
childhood to explain his motivations etc.
I njoyed the series for it's fun quality and updates of griek myths,, but I
found the actual ongoing story and progression of events utterly uninspired
and easy to predict because of their worrying similarities to harry
potter, ---- heck, even the books titles, "percy jaxon and the lightning
thief" "Percy jaxon and the maze of time" clearly were rowling enspired.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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