back on the reading wagon

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Title: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief

Genre: Fantasy, Greek Mythology

Summary (taken from Amazon): Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.



Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Thoughts: I saw the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and after some minor convincing from a friend, I went to the library and checked the book. I was really hoping I wouldn’t be daunted in reading it like I was with the Harry Potter books, but I found that once I started reading it, I couldn’t put the books down – with the exceptions for when I needed to take a mental break. So much of what I learned in Elementary & Middles schools about greek Mythology came back and I remembered why I liked it so much. Mythology is just fun and made explaining things so much more easier. I finished the book in about 9 hours. Hoping that The Sea of Monsters provides as much humor and knowledge as The Lightening Thief did.
Rating: 4 out of 5