Musing Mondays - Spoilers make me mad sometimes & if two of my fave authors would pair up it would be awesome

Musing Mondays - July 18, 2016

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

• I’m currently reading…

• Up next I think I’ll read…

• I bought the following book(s) in the past week…

• I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…

• I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…

• I can’t wait to get a copy of…

• I wish I could read ___, but…

• I blogged about ____ this past week…

I'm (still) really upset by (book/author/bookish-news):

A few weeks back, maybe about a month ago, (not sure really because I keep trying to forget but random things keep reminding me which makes that hard to do) I was scrolling through my pages feed on Facebook and I accidentally read a major spoiler for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. I didn't plan to, I was looking at funny pictures and one was an interesting headcanon, then I made the mistake of reading the comments on that image, in which someone confirmed that that particular headcanon was now canon thanks to Cursed Child. And now it won't leave my head so I am still really angry about that. Sometimes I manage to not think about it but then something random makes it pop right back in there, and if it really is true it's basically ruined the entire twist of the play for me.

          THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Finish the sentence: “If _____ and _____ were to get together and write a book…”

There are so many interesting options I can think of for this, but I think the combination that would really, really be awesome is:

If Rick Riordan and Patricia C. Wrede were to get together and write a book…it would probably the most sarcastic YA mythological book series ever written, with the most badass strong female character at the centre. Rioran specialises in YA modern mythological stories, with Percy Jackson being his most well known of course. These two number among my favourite authors, they're both probably tied right behind JK Rowling actually. One of the best things about Riordan's books is how funny they all are and how sarcastic his characters can be. He also writes pretty good female characters like Annabeth Chase, Sadie Kane, Thalia Grace and Piper McLean to name a select few. He's had a few female POV characters, but Sadie is the closest he's ever come to having a female MAIN character. On the other hand we have Wrede, who is known for her middle grade/YA fantasies like the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Cecelia & Kate, and Frontier Magic among others. The main reason I name those three series specifically is that they all have one thing that Riordan's books don't, really badass female characters as the main characters in the story. Cimorene from the Enchanted Forest series is one of my favourite characters of all time. She's competent, smart, sarcastic, and funny. So I think if you take two witty, sarcastic authors who both specialise in fantastical YA and mash them together they'd do a beautiful job with a mythological storyline and finally give me something I've always wanted, a Riordan book with a female main character.

Lauren