you know those posts that are like “sometimes you re-consume a kid’s media that you enjoyed as a child and you’re like ‘wtf this is insanely dark for a kid’s book’“ just had that experience with The Shadow Thieves

Back in the writing era of “what if the myths and religions of these (mostly European) ancient civilizations were real” a person named Anne Ursu wrote The Cronus Chronicles, which were buried (afaik) in the tidal wave of similar books and the fact that they used Greek mythology like the vastly more popular PJO, but in all honesty they’re fucking fantastic books with lovely variety in storylines, good characters, and well-dealt-with themes/topics, and they deserve more love

@gallifreyanwriter don’t read this has loads of spoilers for the last two cronus chronicles books and i’m pretty sure you said you haven’t read them

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if i had a nickel for every time i’d consumed a piece of media centered on two relatives, one of whom is shorter and a spitfire who lies as easy as they breathe out of a desperate desire to protect themselves and the ones they care about and the other of which is taller and went to a school that’s generally considered way above their level in society and has always been awkward around women and never felt like they quite fit in except when there was no one who had expectations of them around, and the one who is taller blames himself for destroying the world even though he was manipulated by a powerful person from the Underworld and really didn’t do much wrong himself (and this end of the world includes a terrifying, unexplained illness), and then the two relatives try to defeat the Underworld-villain themselves but the taller one is controlled by the villain via some sort of possession, and the villain shows that they’ve gained control of the taller one by having them physically assault the shorter relative before going elsewhere, leaving the shorter one to take a single last desperate stand after travelling a long distance to the place of the final battle, and then just when all is lost the shorter one helps the taller one overcome the possession/control and they’re able to take down the villain (which involves some sort of falling) and literally no one else except for a gruff older man with a soft heart and a being travelling around in a body that isn’t quite theirs was around to see what the two relatives did and appreciate the hardships and pain they’d been through while the rest of the world simply went on, i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

feeling intensely nostalgic for all the greek myth retellings i read as a kid that are less well-known than percy jackson. dark of the moon by tracy barrett. lost in the labyrinth by patricia kindl. goddess of yesterday by caroline cooney. jane yolen’s young heroes series. the metamorphoses trilogy by sarah mccarry. the cronus chronicles by anne ursu…

Does anyone here know the Cronus chronicles. Would anyone like to imagine gem as charlotte with me.

First post ig

curious to know if ppl still enjoy cronus chronicles, that obscure mid 2000s book that ppl often compared to Percy Jackson. I've seen people say they read it in their childhood. Hopefully there is considering how nobody knows it nowadays and I just purchased the 3rd book

ok ok he CANNONICALLY listens to opera and classical music but ahem... he did awaken that emo side of me when I was like uh 12. ANYWAYS. expect some more philonecron rants

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something