Book Review

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is one of my favorite books ever. Whenever I read it I can't put it down. I have read it before, as I have the whole series, but every time I read it I pick up something new and I always enjoy it more. Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors because he is so creative and always grasps the reader from the beginning. For example on page 1 the narrator Percy Jackson says, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood." The first time I read the series I was mystified and curious at the same time. What's a half-blood? Why didn't this person want to be one? Who is this person? and many more questions were spinning and running around in my head. I was intrigued by the very first sentence and can never put the book down from the very first page.
Percy Jackson is a half-blood. A half-blood is a mix between a God and a human. Any one of the many greek Gods that live in twenty-first century America. This isn't your normal action thriller book. You might be imagining that it's just another boring fantasy where around every corner there is another shock and change in the plot. Well it isn't. Though there are shocks throughout the book they are spaced perfectly together and are never too close or too far apart. I have never gotten bored of this book or the series. Each paragraph holds important details to the story. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who enjoys action, suspense and a perfect amount of fantasy, that happens to relate to the greek gods.