The Burning Maze… Or The Burning Earth?
[Photo collected from Rick Riordan's Instagram feed] I’m an avid Rick Riordan fan. With an exception of maybe one or two books (any of the companion books), I’ve read all of his books. Mythology has always been a matter of interest for me and his books allow one to know about them without getting bored. But I’m writing this for a different reason. From what I’ve understood, Riordan is trying to give a very important message through his books: We are killing the nature and one day the nature will kill us. So how did he do this? In the series titled Heroes of Olympus, the ultimate villainess is the Mother Earth, Gaia herself. Wait, the Earth and a villainess? Is that even possible? We have always known the Earth to be all-bearing. It does bear all of us. But Riordan tried to show that she isn’t s...
