If you want to read a book that is packed with suspension, adventure, and mythology you will love The Lightning Thief. It is full of wicked twists and turns that you can’t get your eyes off the pages. It will get you out of your seat cheering for Percy to kill the evil monsters, but it also gives an amazing reminder about how important friendship is and how it helps in the worst of situations.
The story begins with troubled student Percy Jackson who vaporizes his math teacher Ms. Dodds on a class field trip and begins to suspect that his life is a normal one. He learns that his reading and attention troubles at school are all signs that he is a half-blood-a child of the Greek gods. He then goes off to live with his fellow half bloods at Camp Half-Blood. After a summer training with other demigods with Chiron the centaur as his teacher, he sets off on a coast to coast quest to Los Angeles with his friend Grover and Annabeth to recover Zeus' lost lightning bolt and stop a war between the gods. Along the way, Percy has to overcome many obstacles like cold-hearten monsters and Ares the God of War. In the end Percy will learn what it takes to be a hero and what it takes to come out victorious.
Personally I am not super fond of reading, but when I read The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan it really changed my view of reading. It made me like reading in a way I have not experienced before. The style of writing that the author wrote in was really easy to connect to and made it easy to understand. Overall I loved how I could connect to the characters and believe I was really their fighting alongside demi-gods. I felt so alive and I just wanted to be Percy so badly. I wanted to be a hero so save the world from utter chaos and make everyone happy. It also taught me so much about Greek mythology from who the gods were to where the sacred to the Greeks. Most of all I am thankful for this book because it got me to realize how awesome reading is and that I should do it way more often.