I do realise it's been a year or so since I've updated this book (which is probably for the better, tbh) but with this part comes my final and most important reason, which is Percy Jackson's diversity.

Rick managed to make a book series full of such diversity, with characters of colour and queer characters, that this series managed to be important to those represented. Rick got a diversity award for this (a great feat seeing as he's straight and white), and I can't stress how important this diversity was.

Twilight didn't...have any of that. The werewolves were Native American, true, but many people...forgot that? So the diversity wasn't done well in that regard. In the movie they managed to cast actual native Americans to play them, at least.

But the diversity in Percy Jackson is something special, and something that Twilight clearly lacks. The diversity in the Percy Jackson books wasn't fetish-y or aimed toward people not of that diversity (as, unfortunately, some authors do). The diversity was aimed at the people who were like those characters. And those characters managed to be important.

And, with that, I end this chapter, and this book.