SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE COLOR SCHEME OF RICK RIORDAN MYTHOLOGY BOOKS

Most of us have heard of Rick Riordan. Or at least heard of his well-known and beloved ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series and its continuation books.  For those of you who don’t know about the books, it’s about a demigod with dyslexia and ADHD battling monsters and normal high school life. It has 2 continuation series, the Heroes Of and the Trials of Apollo. His writing style is first person, from Percy’s point of view in the first series and then shifts to third person, shifting from the points of view of one main character at a time. One thing we never realized is that they are not the only similarities between the book series.  The color scheme of the book covers are also similar.

The first book of the first series, the Lightning Thief, was released in 2005, and the last book, the Last Olympian was released in 2009. The first book of the second series, the Lost Hero, was released in 2010 and the last book, the Blood of Olympus, was released in 2014. The first book of the third series, the Hidden Oracle, was released in 2016, and the latest book, the Tyrant’s Tomb was released in 2019. The last book, the Tower of Nero, will be released in 2020. We can compare the color scheme in the table below.

Sr. no	Book 1	Book 2	Book 3	Book 4	Book 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians	Blue	Green	Purple	Red	Golden yellow
Heroes of Olympus	Golden yellow	Green	Blue	Red	Purple
Trials of Apollo	Blue-green	Yellow	Purple	Blue	NA

        

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

 

Heroes of Olympus series
 

Trials of Apollo series

We can clearly see the similarities between the colors of the covers. The color schemes are identical to each other. This also indicates the integrated nature of the series as it is connected to each other as they are the continuations of each other. It even references to past events to confirm this.

I conclude by saying that the cover art of books is usually what draws readers to it, along with its plot. Sometimes what we don’t realize is that the series by the same author in the same universe with the same characters can even have the same book cover colors. We just have to be vigilant the next time we do a re-read of it.