The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It's an awesome fictional book about Greek mythology and totally follows the Hero's Journey. Although this book is built around Greek mythology it is put into a modern day setting like New York, California, and Denver. Rick Riordan makes this story a page turner and extremely fun to read when you can relate to some of the places that our mentioned.

Percy who is the main character that we follow around is what we call a Demi god. That means he's half god half human, and has some crazy super powers. Only thing is he doesn't even know about these powers. Ever since Percy was a little kid strange things have happened to him, like being able to hold his breathe underwater for unrealistic amounts of time. But what happens when you go on a field trip and you blow up a water fountain?

Throughout the book Percy learns who he is and even though he doesn't like it at first he comes to accept his abilities. Also a really good theme of this book could easily be family. Sally Jackson who is Percy's mom loves him unconditionally and has only ever tried to keep him safe and away from monsters that often try to attack Demi gods. When Hade’s captures Percy’s mom Percy wants nothing more than to save his mom from the underworld. This is a perfect example of what family means to him.

This book is full of action and adventure; it's a book that you don't want to sit down and leaves you thinking after every chapter. There’s no extreme violence or anything that would prohibit from someone not reading this book. I really enjoyed this book and so far the rest of the series. I give this book an A for sure.