Percy Jackson

I have been working on the Percy Jackson series for two weeks now, written by Rick Riordan. I have to say they were extraordinary. I loved them, It was really a set of books I would read again. It is made up of five books, The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Battle of The Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.

Percy Jackson is a very troubled boy who has ADHD and dyslexia. He lives with his mother and smelly step father in an apartment, his father left without explanation when he was a baby and he has never met him. Percy is always getting kicked out of schools under mysterious circumstances, once he even burned the school gym down. Then when he goes to the Greek museum on a school trip his maths teacher try’s to kill him.

I went to the cinema to see Percy Jackson and The lightning Thief in the cinema for my twelfth birthday, I thought it was so cool! But I had no idea it was based on a book. Usually the book is WAY better than the movie, but I have to say the movie is very well done. It has nearly all my favourite parts from the book.

One thing I loved about these books is how much I learned from them. It tells you all about the Greek gods and goddesses. My favourite gods would be Hades, god of the underworld, I had no idea that Zeus and Poseidon were his brothers and Hermes god the roadways, travellers, merchants and thieves, he gets to travel everywhere delivering to the gods, he’s like the postman for Olympus. The goddess’ I prefer would have to be Athena goddess of wisdom, war and useful arts, she has a terrible temper, you could never tell her your better than her at something or she’ll turn you into something horrid.

Some the best quotes in the books:

“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.

"Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"
I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”

“It's him," I said. "Typhon."
I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!”

“Little sister!" Apollo called. If his teeth were any whiter he could've blinded us without the sun car. "What's up? You never call. You never write. I was getting worried!"
Artemis sighed. "I'm fine, Apollo. And I am not your little sister."
"Hey, I was born first."
"We're twins! How many millennia do we have to argue—”

I would give this book 10 of the 10 and would recommend these for age 10 and up. The next Percy Jackson movie will be out next year, I suggest you read the books before you go and see the movie, so get reading.