‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is a terrific tale of friendship and heroism!’
For a long time I’ve wanted to begin reading the Percy Jackson series of books and it’s took me until now to start. I’m sure when I was in year six I read this book and loved it but never quite remembered what happened as well as somehow not carrying on to read the follow ups – which by the way is very unlike me. Alas! I can now say I have read the first book and shall be continuing the series during the summer.
What’s great about the way Rick Riordan has written the novel is that without realising it the audience are being educated in Greek mythology to an extent if you think about it; I don’t know about others who may have had a chance to read it but, personally, beforehand I never would have been able to name Greek Gods. However, some may argue that you can’t take it seriously, because, yes they do seem to be living in the USA, but that’s the fun of fiction! It’s a playground for our imagination, a chance to get lost, forget the world around us and open our minds to completely alien realms or (like in this book) see our world in a mystifyingly different light.
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