![]() ![]() Romance may also be on the cards between Annabeth and Percy in future books I feel, unless Riordan does a Rowling by making Annabeth go for Grover instead. look out for ambrosia and nectar and you’ll get my drift. We’ve got some mythological creatures tossed in there along with food of the Gods that I’ve heard of and now really want to try. This book for me was awesome! Jam-packed with bits of history, intertextual references to a lot of famous USA landmarks (making it easy to imagine battles) and the light-hearted humour between Percy, Grover and Annabeth. Not only that, but if he doesn’t do it before the summer solstice a war between the Gods will erupt like a volcano on one of its really bad days. Percy’s world turns upside down not just because of that minor situation, also because he didn’t even know he was destined for all this stuff. Basically as suggested by the title this is the book where poor normal Percy is accused by Zeus (God of the Sky) of stealing his lightning bolt. If that synopsis does not draw you in to read this action-packed book we are not on the same wavelength – but hey, that’s fine because everyone’s different. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive.’ That’s when things really started going wrong. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. ‘I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. However, some may argue that you can’t take it seriously, because, yes they do seem to be living in the USA, but that’s the fun of fiction! It’s a playground for our imagination, a chance to get lost, forget the world around us and open our minds to completely alien realms or (like in this book) see our world in a mystifyingly different light. What’s great about the way Rick Riordan has written the novel is that without realising it the audience are being educated in Greek mythology to an extent if you think about it I don’t know about others who may have had a chance to read it but, personally, beforehand I never would have been able to name Greek Gods. Alas! I can now say I have read the first book and shall be continuing the series during the summer. As a son of Poseidon, Percy has newly discovered powers he cant control, monsters on his. I’m sure when I was in year six I read this book and loved it but never quite remembered what happened as well as somehow not carrying on to read the follow ups – which by the way is very unlike me. The Greek gods are real, and theyre ruining Percy Jacksons life. For a long time I’ve wanted to begin reading the Percy Jackson series of books and it’s took me until now to start.
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