Percy Jackson, Book 1: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (2024)

Hello readers! This is Miss A.Misra signing in to tell you about yet another book I have recently read.

Now, the Percy Jackson series has mainly five original books, and I have read four till now. Let’s start from the first one: Percy Jackson and the lighting thief.

SYNOPSIS:

Here, the book starts with Percy explaining his identity in the typical hilarious way. He didn’t want to be half blood, that is, child of a powerful Greek god and a mortal. He concludes mainly that it’s dangerous, with you being killed( or tried to be killed) in various ways.Later on he introduces himself to us, saying he studied at Yancy academy, New York, and is currently 12. He hates his class bully who is Nancy, also studying at Yancy academy ( get what I did there? Nancy-Yancy? OH never mind.)

His best friend is Grover, who later turns out to be his satyr protector ( satyr is a half man, half goat in ancient greek. Great) and leads him to camp half blood after he vaporises his algebra teacher with his Latin teacher’s sword, Riptide.( Yeah, his Latin teacher carried a sword around him and gave it to Percy later on.) Turns out, the algebra teacher was a monster trying to kill him! Percy’s mom is a normal mortal, Sally Jackson. Now see, mortals can’t see the monsters, the celestial bronze swords or the magical things that gods or half bloods can. But there are some,who can see them. Sally ‘s mom was one, and she knew all about how half bloods are dyslexic and have ADHD and don’t do well in normal schools. So when Grover randomly bursts in on their camping holiday, she takes a car, grabs Percy and runs off to Camp half blood, which is a secure camp for half bloods, which normal people don’t know about.

It’s protected by a magical boundary made by a tree, Thalia, daughter of Zues, had been killed by a Cyclops while protecting her friends. Zues had taken pity and turned her into a magical pine tree which protected everyone, such was her own nature. Anyways, while running to camp, they are attacked by a big Minotaur in the dark and Percy’s mother is captured and sent to the underworld, but Percy manages to kill it by taking off one of it’s horns and saving Grover. They rush to camp.

Percy feels sad about his mother and broods over it. His Latin teacher turns out to be a – centaur called Chiron! (Probably explains how he had a sword with him) As Percy was exhausted, he fell unconscious and was treated for almost 3 days by Annabeth ( Athena , goddess of wisdom’s daughter) and then gets put into Hermes cabin as he is unclaimed by his god parent. That does not take long , as he is quite soon claimed by none other than- Poseidon, god of sea!

Percy is alone in his cabin as there was no other child of Poseidon in camp.He soon sees that camp has alot of activities, sword fighting, archery, sword making, etc. But the major point is, Zues’s lightning bolt is stolen and Percy is suspected of it! Zuessays that it must be returned by summer solstice, and Percy, Annabeth, and Grover set off on a quest to find it, battling monsters 24/7 all day. But will he find it or be disintegrated (gulp!) by the god of lighting and sky?

My opinion:

This series is extremely amazing, and makes you hang on to every word. It is very funny,sarcastic, adventurous, and creates an overall exciting experience. This book will have you on the edge with its action and adventure. I don’treally find many flaws in the book but I do have something to say about the movie. It has changed every detail it could. Firstly, Annabeth is blonde and grey eyed. The actor has red hair with blue eyes. Like how? Okay, i get it, it’s hard to find exact specifications for everyone in the series, who can act well, but it kind of irritates the fans of the book! Then, a major event, the capture the flag, where Percy defeats Clarisse’s team and a hellhound, the movie shows how he defeats Annabeth ( which never happened) and the hellhoundwas just forgotten!

To sum it up, this was an awesome book!

Farewell till next time!

Goodbye for today, see you later in another book review!