The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The Idea of using Greek Mythology, the-all-powerful-gods-of-Olympus-ruling-over-mortals, still existing in the modern world seemed pretty cool to me. I finished the series in a single stretch since I’m so into the whole super natural-superhero-fantasy kind of thing. Seriously i captivated by the tinge of comedy and romance in the atmosphere of the whole story. Overall the series is a fantastic read for all fun loving-thriller-fantasy fans.

Percy Jackson is a typical American Kid with a bad boy streak (Not the ordinary kind) which leads to him getting expelled from multiple schools. He also faces problems like dyslexia, ADHD and also he has to put up with his stepdad who is a screw-up. Finally his whole world transmogrifies when he learns that he is a Half-blood which means one of his parent is a God (The Gods transforms into ordinary mortal like and fall in love with mortals, hence the off springs being Half God - Half Human making them Mortal half-blood who are powerful than the normal people in their own way depending on the powers of their parents). Reaching 12 years of age, the half-bloods give out a scent which makes them target to monsters which apparently the normal people can’t see and they interpret the destruction caused according to own normal thinking . And Percy goes to this Camp-Half Blood where Half-blood are trained where he lives, and finally learns that he is the son of one of the Three Major Gods who had vowed not to have kids since world war II putting him in harm’s way and he learns that he is being suspected for the Stealing of the Lightning rod of Zeus which is going to lead to war between the Olympians, if the rod is not found in a week. Percy then goes on a journey to find the rod with his half-blood friends in order to retrieve the rod which he suspects is in the underworld.

The entire book is about His journey which was really great.

One final thing, Please don't watch the movie 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)'. After reading the book, i watched the movie -Let me say this -" The Movie is a Piece of Crap" which ruined the entire story of the book. Pathetic portrayal of Hades, Grover, even Annabeth. They even showed Persepone who is Hades's Wife stabbing him with the lighting rod and they didn’t even show Ares, thereby colossally ruining the story.

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