Book Review - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
I read this book because my friend Jac influenced me to read it. Also when the book-fair came to the primary school I was at last year, I bought the book. The author is called Rick Riordan, he has also written four other books in the Percy Jackson series. The publisher is PUFFIN, the book cover has a photo of Percy Jackson from the major film and there are 375 pages in it.
Percy Jackson realises he is a half blood. A half-blood is someone who has a Greek god as a father. Poseidon, one of the bog three, as Percy’s father gives him water power. Percy has a normal human being as a mother but is drawn in by Greek monsters called Minitour - they are half man half bull and twice the size of both. They chase Percy, his mother and is friend around, the minitour unfortunately kills his mother who disintegrates right in front his eyes.
Percy is given a quest given by his new half blood teacher which is a centaur. Percy goes with two of his new friends called Annabeth and Grover. Annabeth is a half-blood like him and Grover is a satre (a goat man). When they are on their quest they find out about what their teacher back at the camp has said. Luke, a half-blood who Percy had a suspicion about, has got to go with them but Percy finds out that Zeus, a mighty God from the big three, has lost his master lightning bolt. Percy knows it is Luke.
Kronos, an evil Titan from Taruras (a pit of death) has been reformed and is closing round Luke to be his new body and to steal the lightening bolt to regain his evil powers.
The best bits in this story is when Percy fights Luke on top of Olumus and uses his sword to corner him on the top - the water he ejects out of his hands is awesome. Another good bit is when Annabeth uses flying shoes to take Luke up high in the air were he does not like to be!
The character which I think is least believable is Annabeth when she uses her invisible cap to spy on the enemies plans. The most interesting part for me is when Percy falls in love with a pretty Satre called Juniper - Percy asks for Annabeth's cap to see what Grover does.
The characters in the book are to many so I’ll tell you the Greek Cabins, they are: Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaesius, Hera, Hermeshestia, Poisiden and Zues.
The book is aimed at people over the age of 9+ and is a good book to read because you never know what monster Percy is going to bump into next!
I hope you like my review and read the book soon.
Josh.
