Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

I really, really loved this series, even thought the age range is said to be 9-12 and I’m sixteen, but hey, people read Harry Potter, right?

One of the things that I really liked about the series was that is was mostly correct grammar wise, something which I have noticed YA fiction lacks these days. In all honesty I blame Twilight and Stephenie Meyer, making people believe that people will actually enjoy their novels no matter the countless amounts of grammar errors.

But moving on.

As I usually do when reviewing a book, in this case a series, I start by mentioning the good things about it.

So here I go, I can’t make promises that these are good things though, I just love doing these kind of things lately.

I thought the characters were really developed, I thought Percy’s change from being what he thought a troubled teen with dyslexia and ADHD, and how he comes to realise that these are his greatest assets. And Annabeth, from a person who thought they had to live up to their parents’ godly name, to being her own. I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but in the first book she was all for hating Percy because he was the son of Poseidon, but by the end they were going out. I’ll admit, I could see this coming even before the hits, its been done in literature for ages, and honestly, I didn’t mind this. They make a cute couple. I also never thought I’d say something like that about a novel.

Grover was also an amazing character in my opinion, I thought he lightened the mood and added most of the humour to the series and I was glad that he was accepted by the end by the Satyrs.

I wasn’t too keen on Thalia as a character, but that wasn’t due to anything else besides the fact that I really don’t like characters like her, characters that come in the story and think they’re everything and can order everyone around like they’d been there was ages. And some of the bigheaded things she said really grated on my nerves. But I guess that was the intention of the character though.

I liked the dyslexia and ADHD awareness the series brings, however small the hints were, it was there, and it definitely got me thinking more about kids with dyslexia and ADHD, my friend is a sufferer of dyslexia and she said that was one of the things she liked about the film (she has yet to read the books).

I thought the story was fairly plotted, and I liked how everything in the end made sense, the prophecies most of all, like at the end of book, the prophecy makes sense to everything that happened throughout. That showed skill to me, unlike the treaty in Twilight, something which seemed to have been thought about at last moment.

I thought Percy was a great narrator for the series, I felt like we could delve into his mindscape and understand everything through the way he thought things and not just from the way the author wrote it out for us. It was a detailed story all things considered.

I think I should move on to some of the things I weren’t too keen. Though I will admit there weren’t many of them.

On my eBook copy of the Lightning Thief there were some missing apostrophes, and I know it sounds like something really insignificant to mention, but there were a couple of them, and through reading the paperback versions too, I guess its really just a eBook fault, they are known to not have the most grammar and paragraphing. My copy of the Lovely Bones’ paragraphing was all over the place, and I checked the paperback for that one too and nothing seemed to be the problem there, either.

One of the things story wise that wasn’t delved into much was some of the stuff Percy did, like in Battle of the Labyrinth where he created the explosion, there wasn’t much mentioned on that where I would have liked to have been explained more. The same thing really goes for the Tornado thing he did, I would check that one out myself but currently as I write this on word, the internet is gone, so hopefully when I go to copy and paste this everything will be explained a little better to me, could Poseidon do stuff like that? Or was it Achilles’ curse? I would have liked to know the origin to that one too.

That’s more or less all I wanted to discuss on stuff that I wasn’t too keen on and confused me, and as I said, there wasn’t much to it.

Summary time.

All in all, I loved the series and I would recommend it to anyone who asked me about it. I would tell them that the series is a great series that grabs your attention from the first moment to the last and you wouldn’t rest properly until you had completed the series.

I learnt my lesson on that one in school today when I couldn’t focus on anything that was being said to me.

I’d rate the series out of personal opinion about 8/10.

One thing I have to get ready for now is the sequel. I’m dying to know more about it and see if Percy Jackson is in it. I hope he is, Camp Half-Blood just won’t be the same for me unless Percy’s there, does anyone else agree? I would like to see another series with Percy in it.

Though there’s not much I can do if he’s not right? You never know, maybe I’ll like the new character, I just don’t think I’d be able to withhold anything if not Percy, all the comparisons will be pouring out of me.

I think that should be it from me.

Hopefully I’ll get the internet back by tonight so I can upload it tonight!

I’ve even got proof that I wrote it on Monday, a starter and an ender! This also means no blog for today, I don't have the time to write it....