I know its a sweeping question with multiple answers but its exactly as the title says. A teenager character is sent to a hogwarts or camp half blood of sorts but rather than the greek I'm looking for Norse, hindu, or Egyptian gods (not Japanese mythology please)
by Massive_Boss1991
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The Kane Chronicles
So there’s actually a whole Rick Riordan Presents series that are all about young adults finding themselves caught up in other mythologies. I’ve read a few of them, and though I liked some better than others, it’s a great place to start.
Rick Riordan also wrote series specifically focused on Norse and Egyptian mythologies.
SUMMERLAND by Michael Chabon
I’m reading the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. It’s a bit of Potter, a bit of Percy Jackson, a lot of wryly narrated police procedural, and a lot of laugh out loud funny, irreverent and adult writing. It’s also a love letter to the culture and architecture of London. And definitely not YA.
The last Magician/Cop of the London police magical crimes unit has a new apprentice, a young cop who is our protagonist, who is having to immerse in The Knowledge to become a ‘Practitioner’. He has to navigate a world that includes his old school upper crust boss, his jazz musician junkie dad, his West African immigrant mom, and a host of other idiosyncratic characters in modern London. Oh, and murderous wizards and supernatural beings of various sorts, including pre-christian animist European Gods like the eponymous rivers and wood nymphs etc.
It’s humorously meta. The Master gets annoyed when his pupil keeps referring to the old defunct magic school as Hogwarts. I was cackling when someone new to the existence of magic asked if it was like the Avatar universe with Airbenders and such. He was told an emphatic “no”. A scene later a magical person jams his hand into the sidewalk and breaks it open to disappear! And our protagonist exclaims “fuck me, he’s an Earthbender!”
Later books jump to different countries, and even periods. And it’s fantastic in audiobook, the author in an interview described writing exotic characters just to challenge the reader to do the accent!
Blackwell Pages, it’s a bit like Percy Jackson but with Norse mythology; and they are the descendants rather than directly the children of the gods
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia is a standalone book with a Percy Jackson vibe. It’s about an 18 year old girl in 1920s Mexico running away from her abusive family to help a Mayan death god reclaim his throne.
I’ve not read it myself but I’ve heard the Ash Mistry series by Sarwat Chadda is a good series, percy jackson vibes for hindu/indian mythology