Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1): Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and The Olympians, 1)

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But I wanted to feel so much more because those moments right there demanded my emotions and feelings.

I know it's a middle grade book and I give all the credits to the book that it deserves being so easy to get into and for being written in such an adventurous, fun, fast-paced style (ah, the gods seeming more us mortals than the actual mortals 😁) and for being still interesting to read considering it was written more than 15 years ago. The Lightning Thief is followed by The Sea of Monsters, in which Percy and Annabeth rescue Grover, who has been taken by Polyphemus the Cyclops, and recover the Golden Fleece to save the camp. i have reread all of them too many times to count, you have not lived until you have read this book!Luke, a son of Hermes whom Percy considered a friend, stole both Zeus' Master Bolt and Hades' Helm of Darkness, and later tries to kill Percy, ultimately betraying him. However, it did criticize some aspects of the book, describing the prose as "choppy and attitude-filled" and complaining that "[t]he characters aren't emotionally involving". and added, "Another level of fun here– laughing at the wicked ways the author has updated the gods and monsters for the 21st century". I was trying to listen to what he had to say, because it was kind of interesting, but everybody around me was talking, and every time I told them to shut up, the other teacher chaperone, Mrs Dodds, would give me the evil eye. We thought that maybe if we did that, everybody wouldn't know we were from that school—the school for loser freaks who couldn't make it elsewhere.

Aside from being highly unoriginal and unimaginative, the book grates on your nerves due to the frequency of Percy's lame attempts at sounding witty. One character keeps happening before you try to grasp the character you have been just introduced to. He has blue eyes all over his body, and usually when heroes need to go on quests, he would drive them in the white van to a certain place, then head back to camp. Along the way, they must face their most dangerous challenge yet: the chilling prophecy of the titan’s curse. Whether you are new to Percy or a longtime fan, this gorgeous paperback edition is a must-have for your library.Percy’s class takes a field trip to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of ancient Greek artifacts. After Percy lands in the Mississippi River, he discovers some of his powers which include breathing and staying dry underwater. The Lightning Thief was published in Bulgarian, Romanian, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Danish, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Indonesian, Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, and Catalan.