The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
"Safety from what? Who's after me?"
Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions."
What happens one day when you wake up and learn that all that you have known to be true in your life is exactly the opposite of the reality?
That is what happened with Harry Potter when a touch of magic and a big burly half-giant named Hagrid changed his mundane life. The things that never made sense suddenly started to make sense. This is what created a generation of Harry Potter fans. Well Percy Jackson is somewhat similar but with a little twist.
Unlike Harry who is just a wizard Percy Jackson is a demi-god commonly known as a half-blood. But Percy had no idea about it. He has always considered himself to be weird. He is dyslexic with ADHD (later which turns out to be are his special powers prone to each and every half-blood) and he has been changing schools forever as something funny always happens in his schools which he is unable to explain. He lives with his mother Sally who is the most kindest woman on Earth and her husband Smelly Gabe who can't stand Percy and abuses his mom. The feeling's mutual. Percy is frustrated with how his life has turned out to be and blames his unknown father for abandoning his mother and him. Suddenly one day a Fury (yeah you heard that right) sent by the Greek god of the death Hades changes his life.
He is suddenly shipped off to a special place for kids like him called Camp Half Blood. A summer camp for the offspring of the twelve Olympian gods and mortal humans who are trained by none other than Chiron, the centaur. It turns out that Percy is the son of one of the big threes and it is none other than Poseiden, the sea-god. There Percy makes friends a satyr named Grover and Athena's daughter Annabeth Chase and together they go on a trust to retrieve Zeus's master-bolt. It is their first quest and a whole lot a events take place.
Well, that was brilliant. Don't know why I waited so long to read it. I am glad that I finally picked up the series. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is brilliant, gripping and a page turner. I was so consumed in the adventures of Percy, Annabeth and Grover that it was hard enough to put down the book for bare necessities. The world Rick Riordan has built is just going to get better, bigger and a whole lot more adventurous. Can't wait to pick up the other books.
I loved Percy. He is cool, intelligent, a kindred spirit which Poseidon claims to just run in the family. He loves his mother, Sally and can make quick decisions at times of problems. He is not the one to just blindly sacrifice himself. He assess the pros and cons of a situation and makes the right choice. He is not reckless. Like in the scene where he has only three pearls from Poseidon but there are four people to save. He realizes that his mother would never be happy if Percy was left behind in the underworld because that would mean a war among the gods and the destruction of mankind. He takes the right decision and saves Annabeth, Grover and himself.
Annabeth is everything the daughter of Athena, the Greek goddess of knowledge and warfare can expected to be. Loved her so much. The other characters of the story were interesting as well. It was fun to see all the ancient Greek mythological characters in present day US fully adapted to the US lifestyle. After all the gods need a change too. The story is not yet finished and I can bet that it gets interesting and gripping.
I can't wait to get my hands on The Sea of Monsters.
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