The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It took me a little bit to get used to the writing style because it felt a little more immature than I was used to. But once I got over that I was able to really get into the story and characters. It was a fun mix of ancient Greek mythology (which I love)and modern times and teenagers. Basically, Percy Jackson is a troubled young teen with dyslexia and AD/HD who has been kicked out of every school he has attended. Very strange things seem to happen around Percy (whose real name his teacher reveals is Perseus, also the rescuer of Princess Andromeda and the slayer of Medusa in Mythology). Percy starts to figure out through a series of rather frightening events that his best friend Grover and his teacher, whose real name Percy finds out is Chiron (Trainer of Hercules, I think), are not what they seem at all. Percy gets taken to a place called Half-Blood Camp for kids like himself- Demi-Gods. Soon after Percy arrives and begins to accept what he has known to be myth, there is trouble on Mt. Olympus. Percy and the rest of the camp find out that his real father is one of the "Big Three" Gods; Posieden, God of the Seas. His mother gets taken to the underworld as Percy tries to protect her from an angry minator, and Percy and two friends, Grover and Annabeth, set off on an adventure solving the mystery of Zues's Stolen lightning bolt, fighting monsters, meeting and challenging Gods, and rescueing Percy's Mother.This book has 375 pages and is the first of a series of 5 books.

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