Recycled Plots??!!!!! SPOILER WARNING!!!

[Geo]

I don't understand what others meant about RR recycling PJO plots here. I would have agreed with the first book in the series. THAT has a lot of elements from the PJO series.

I guess they're referring to the dreams and the wedding with Thrym. On the first instance, dreams is a huge element of all his series. It is not exclusively a PJO element.

As for the wedding, it is actually from the Norse myths. RR does that all the time--recycle mythical elements. For example, The Sea of Monsters is heavily derived from Odyssey and The Lost Hero from Jason and the Argonauts.

Thoughts?

[Sir_ragde]

I love RR, but the schematic of each plot is almost always the same (it's also why it's soo good).
- 1rst book you discover the hero and the new friends (and also the "camp"), the big bad guy appears. End of the introduction quest.
- 2th book, new quest, new hero dark and questioning. There is some oracle that will be badly interpreted, the bad guy outsmarts everyone and escapes is prison.
- 3th book big final fight, big prophecy that is again wrongly interpreted, and the bad guy loses.

And also the pace is very fast.

This are not criticism but facts ^^