Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

I chose to read this book because Joseph told me that this series is a really good one so yeah and I can say after reading this that I cant wait to read the next one. :D

Anyways, this is the first book of five books in the series and introduces and follows the adventures of Percy Jackson (obviously) and his quests and journeys. In this book he travels with two friends he meets and they eventually become very close. His two friends are Annabeth and Grover.

Firstly, Percy Jackson isn't your avergae 12 year old boy, he is dyslexic and suffers from ADHD and has been kicked out of many different schools because of it. Now, you might be thinking that this book is weird just bcoz its about a dyslexic kid, but what you dont know is that Percy is what they call a HALF-BLOOD. A half-blood is somebody who has a Greek god as one of their parents and it took Percy a while to figure out that he was the son of one of the most powerful gods that ever lived.

This book is really cool because it mixes the past with the ancient greek mythology and all that stuff with the modern day life of a not so average 12 year old. The author did this by introducing Percy as the main character being in battle with his maths teacher, Mrs Dodds (who is actually a minion of darkness)

It might seem confusing at first but hopefully after you read this, you'd wana read the book. :D
So the book starts with Percy being kicked out of Yancy Academy from the "battle" with his maths teacher, he only really has one best friend and that is Grover and he soons finds out that Grover is really important in his life. The author gives the reader a suspicious feeling about Grover in the beginning when Percy accidentally eavesdrops on a conversation between Grover and his Latin Teacher Mr. Brunner(which is also important in the stroy). He leaves Yancy academy having second thoughts on his relationship with Grover. The author introduces the book in a very action packed way when Grover and Percy run into three old ladies knitting socks on the motorway(weird huh?) but it actually got me more involved with the story. :D

So he and his mother take a trip to one of their favourite vacation spots and that is in Montauk and that is where weird things started happening. It all started in one night when Percy hears a knock on their cabin door and realize it is Grover running away from something. I got more involved with the book at this point because i really like action in a book. So weirdly enough, Grover and Percy's mum are on the same page when they agree to flee and get Percy somewhere safe. However, Percy doesn't know what's happening and so does the reader because the book is written in Percy's point of view.

It's gonna take really long if I tell you the whole thing so I'll just tell you the important parts, Percy ends up killing a greek monster called Minotaur without having any idea how he killed it and his mother mysteriously disappears. I really like this part of the book because it takes the reader to the main part of the story and not like other books when you have to read so many chapters to get to the good parts. So anyway, Percy is ends up in Camp Half-Blood where he slowly realizes his TRUE self after shocking events and meeting shocking new people. One person in particular is his latin teacher Mr. Brunner who turns out to be a centaur ,(his real name is Chiron) he then teaches Percy all about Camp Half-Blood and the fact that Percy's father is still undetermined meaning he could be the son of a really important or a not so important Greek god.

Chiron and Grover teach Percy all about being a half-blood and about which cabin you stay in represents which god youre the son or daughter of. I loved this part in the book because I can just imagine the average teenager(especially me) living in a place like that where they get assigned different cabins to represent their family bloodline. I found it really cool! :D
At first, Percy is assigned to cabin eleven which he soon finds out is where all the undetermined(who doesnt know their parent god yet) kids go and it is also the Hermes cabin (messenger of the gods) it is where he meets his first friend Luke (head of Hermes)

Not so long after, Percy finds out who his father really is in a game of capture the flag when he gets beat up by the Ares(god of war) cabin and gets thrown into the river. Percy notices something, when he is in a body of water, he becomes invulnerable and he gets an adrenaline rush and he suddenly becomes very strong. This gave me the idea that his father might be the god of sea or god of the water and turns out I was right. When Annabeth (shes in Athena cabin, the sister of Medusa) and everyone in campus find a glowing green trident in the air which is the symbol of power for POSEIDON (GREEK GOD OF THE SEA) This marks the start of Percy's adventures.

So, when he finds out that he is the son of Poseidon, Percy is assigned to cabin three (Poseidon cabin) where he is al by himself since he is the only child and he feels very lonely. Im not gonna go into all detail because its gonna ruin the book but Percy ends up going on a quest with Grover (yes, he is there) and Annabeth to find Zeus' lightning bolt because Percy's father, POseidon is accused of stealing it and he sets out to clear his father's name.

Along theway, Percy realies that he has various water powers including being able to breath underwater, being able to get along with water animals like sharks and being able to manipulate water. He also becomes wiser through the story when mishaps and trouble with monsters happen and some encounters with some wise and not wise gods all to find the lightning thief. :D

Im really sorry for not going into detail coz i dont wanna ruin the book for you guys but hopefully i said enough to make you guys get the book out . :D

I thought this book was really good in terms of the plot and how it is structured because it kept me turning the page everytime I picked it up to read it and the use of vocabulary is really good in this book because it paints very clea images in the reader's mind and i think that strong vocabulary is vital to books like these because it involves lots of action which loved !! Im gonna reads the next one ! PERCY JACKSON & THE SEA OF MONSTERS . :D

Vince Exconde