Riordan does a very good job, particularly as the series goes on, of allowing characters aside from Magnus to take center stage occasionally.
Hearth and Blitzen’s friendship is my favorite aspect of the whole series. I pretty much always like side characters more than main characters, but I found the sidekicks particularly compelling in this series. Sam and Alex in particular are very welcome characters because they are both members of groups that are often misunderstood and demonized their inclusion feels both important and natural. I personally am not Muslim, genderfluid, or deaf but as far as I can tell all of those characters are handled very well. It is probably obvious from the above paragraph that this is a very diverse series. There are a few more, but Magnus, Sam, Alex, Blitz, Hearth, and Jack make up the core cast. This primarily consists of two of Loki’s children (Sam, a devout Muslim Valkyrie, and Alex, a sarcastic and genderfluid shapeshifter) Blitzen, a fashionable dwarf Hearthstone, a deaf elf wizard and Jack, a talking (and singing) magical sword. Aside from being charming, he’s cruel and manipulative and trickily kills people just because he can. Loki is a lot less pleasant in Riordan’s series (and actual Norse mythology) than he is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This largely consists of going up against Loki and a bunch of giants. The series centers on Magnus Chase (yes, he’s Annabeth’s cousin) and his post-mortem (yes, he’s dead) adventures to prevent Ragnorak, the Norse end-times. What’s it about? He also presumably does not look like Tom Hiddleston Also, I read PJO first that alone is usually enough to warrant a preference. I like MCGA a lot, but I’ve always particularly enjoyed Greek mythology. Personally, I prefer Percy Jackson and the Olympians to Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, but I do not necessarily think that is because it is better. The easiest way to describe this series is that it’s Percy Jackson, except with Norse mythology rather than Greek. Anyone who disagrees with that can fight me on it. Also, it’s always a better experience to reread the whole series. It was definitely the right call to do a reread, because despite the attempts to provide refreshers when they’re warranted, there are enough specific incidents that carry over from the previous books that hazily remembering the main points and general characterizations isn’t quite enough. I learned my lesson with The Golden Yarn.
Since I don’t have a very good memory, I figured that I would reread The Sword of Summer and The Hammer of Thor before diving into The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan.
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