I quite liked how this book started as we saw Percy in his day to day life and things slowly started happening to him. Grover and Percy aren’t at school for a very long time because it is nearly the end of the year already when the book begins. This book is set in the United States, firstly in Yancy Academy which is a private school for troubled teenagers. So, in this book, Percy soon finds out that he is not a simple teenager with issues, and with his new friends Grover and Annabeth, he goes off on a mission that is dangerous and near impossible to accomplish! I personally think it makes them a lot more realistic (because no one is immune to everything in life).
Unfortunately, there is such a thing as characters that are too perfect, but I like that right from the start here, people have conditions and what some would call flaws.
He is dyslexic and has ADHD (which have their own explanation later on in the book) and I actually adored these elements. This series is a YA fantasy/mythology one and in the first book, we meet our protagonist, Percy Jackson, as he is at school and bad things start happening to him. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’ stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Zeus’ master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school… again. I also got the chance to read this book as a buddy read with Candyce from The Book Dutchesses and it was really fun! I picked this book for the Trope-ical Readathon hosted by Jenny and her partner Rob for the SFF team challenge of “ magical academy”. Today, I have a review of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I really want to go exploring somewhere, but don’t want to get caught out in the heat or a thunderstorm, so I’ll have to be patient! I hope your week is going well so far! I think the heat in France has finally cooled down a bit and I’ve been trying to get ahead with my reading, blogging and catching up on posts. “The real world is where the monsters are.” – The Lightning Thief Published: 1st of June 2005 – Disney-Hyperion Title: The Lightning Thief (#1 Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
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