Percy Jackson and the Olympians
After reading the Harry Potter and Twilight series about a million times, I wanted something new and fun to read. I saw a preview for a movie series called Percy Jackson and the Olympians and couldn’t tell if it looked good or horrible. Recently, I’ve rediscovered how awesome the library is and I’ve been using it a lot lately to read books I would never buy or read more than once. Books are hit and miss sometimes, so I usually make it a point to only buy books that are really good or I will read more than once. As a result, sometimes I miss really good stuff. I put the five Percy Jackson books in my library queue and got them just a week or two ago. I just finished book four and am moving onto the last book soon, possibly when I’m done writing this.
Don’t get me wrong, Rick Riordan (the author) is no J.K. Rowling or even Stephenie Meyer, but the books are fun and entertaining and fast to read. Sometimes that’s just what you want. The series centers around a kid (who is 12 in the first book) who has a lot of behavioral problems at school, and at a trip to a museum gets attacked by one of his teachers who is a monster. It turns out that Percy Jackson is actually what they call a “half-blood” (I know, it’s a lot like Harry Potter), which means he is half human and half god. Yes, like Hercules. At the camp, they have a cabin for each god (except Hades, cause, you know) and the children of that god stay in the cabin. Percy gets claimed by Poseidon, and he’s the only one known. In each book there’s a problem or something they have to find or fight. The plotlines aren’t particularly genius, but they keep the story moving. He has a few friends that he fights with and the gods show up in different capacities.
I don’t want to tell too much about the series because maybe the few people who actually read my blog might want to read them, and I don’t want to ruin it. The movies should be fun, and I’m excited to have a new series. It seems like the trend right now in both books and film is to work with the supernatural. The trend also seems to be focusing on young adults and tweens. I’m just saying, there might be something to that. The titles of the books are good though, The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian.
Don’t get me wrong, Rick Riordan (the author) is no J.K. Rowling or even Stephenie Meyer, but the books are fun and entertaining and fast to read. Sometimes that’s just what you want. The series centers around a kid (who is 12 in the first book) who has a lot of behavioral problems at school, and at a trip to a museum gets attacked by one of his teachers who is a monster. It turns out that Percy Jackson is actually what they call a “half-blood” (I know, it’s a lot like Harry Potter), which means he is half human and half god. Yes, like Hercules. At the camp, they have a cabin for each god (except Hades, cause, you know) and the children of that god stay in the cabin. Percy gets claimed by Poseidon, and he’s the only one known. In each book there’s a problem or something they have to find or fight. The plotlines aren’t particularly genius, but they keep the story moving. He has a few friends that he fights with and the gods show up in different capacities.
I don’t want to tell too much about the series because maybe the few people who actually read my blog might want to read them, and I don’t want to ruin it. The movies should be fun, and I’m excited to have a new series. It seems like the trend right now in both books and film is to work with the supernatural. The trend also seems to be focusing on young adults and tweens. I’m just saying, there might be something to that. The titles of the books are good though, The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian.
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