book review (percy jackson)

    (read: 12/Oct/11)

      Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Half Boy. Half God. All Hero.

                                               Prod dets

                                                                       Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book one

Pub: 2005, Penguin Group

Author: Rick Riordan

Cat: fiction (Greek gods)

Format: paperback (mid); 374 pp w/ 22 chapters

Age Range: 9+ middle grade (?)

                Summary

Look, I don’t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That’s when things really started going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive.

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I’ve stolen his lightning bolt—and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.

      my Thoughts (review)

This book was one of those ones that simultaneously pulled me in, not letting me have a minute to think of anything but the book itself and made me want to write my own.

It’s also very hard not to read this book without seeing the movie—but saying it, the whole thing made more sense with the book; he’s much better a character as a 12 yr old then what ever age he was meant to be in the movie. And well... like always, the book is a shit loud better, though I actually liked the movie.

And though it goes with the flow of the movie, it’s so different, unique that’s it’s a completely different story. And I love it for that. Rick, dose a beautiful job, telling the story, reaching us all about Greek myth without making it seem boring, or a clog of information, that weighs down the whole thing.

And him then there’s Percy—I love how he sees the word around him, the description of others around me, very basic the way children see the world, and yet it was almost like you were there with him, walking where he was showing you. Maybe because of the way he wrote it made it have that quality to it.

And then all the characters around him. The ones around him, Grover—timid? Unsure of himself. Annabelle, out to prove something. They are great and even more so the evil—or the ones that wanted to kill him.

I give loved this book, and can’t wait to get my hands on the other, it probably helps that I actually like Greek myth over any other, and so the information’s inside the book wasn’t something I didn’t already know, and yet, like a bible, the stories and his take on the world was something that makes it so much more interesting. I loved it, really, loved it.

     Series

Percy Jackson and the: Sea of Monsters, the Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, the Last Olympian