This quarter I read Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief. This amazing story takes place in a camp call Half-Blood Hill. The kids who assist to this camp are all demigods, that means they're the children from a god and a mortal. Percy Jackson doesn't know he is not a normal kid, he learns that the hard way when a monster from the Underworld attacks him while he is at a school trip. Luckily Grover, a satyr sent by the camp organizers to protect Percy, is with him at the moment because they're best friends. Percy's mother, Sally, gets kidnapped by Hades when she hurries to get her son to camp where he will be save. Percy gets to camp where he meets a bunch other half-bloods, Luke (Hermes's son), Clarisse (Ares's daughter), Annabeth (Athena's daughter) and many more. Percy refers to this camp as his home because it is the only place where he found people like him, problem makers with dyslexia. After being claimed as the son of Poseidon, Percy is assigned a quest to save the world from a war between his father and Zeus. Percy's quest consists on going to the Underworld to find Zeus's bolt which Hades took, but framed Poseidon. Percy just accepts the quest because he has the hope that maybe he can get his mother back. Annabeth and Grover volunteer to go with him. They fight many monsters along the way, but the made it to the Underworld just to find out that the bolt had been in their backpack all the way along with Hades's helm. Now they are the ones who got framed, the question is: by who..?
This book is totally worth reading, because it taught me what heroes really are: people who put others before themselves, even strangers. This book is super fun because it mixes an old, boring topic (Greek Mythology) with today's events like people with learning issues like dyslexia or kids getting kicked out of boarding schools or children never meeting their parents. I also love this book because it justifies why us humans don't see anything unusual that can lead us to think that Gods and Goddesses really exists: this thing call the Mist, blurs our brain when something that involves mythology is happening and makes us think that something that we can actually understand is happening. I would recommend this book for people who like both, mystery and adventure, and people who love mythology and fantasy.
This book is totally worth reading, because it taught me what heroes really are: people who put others before themselves, even strangers. This book is super fun because it mixes an old, boring topic (Greek Mythology) with today's events like people with learning issues like dyslexia or kids getting kicked out of boarding schools or children never meeting their parents. I also love this book because it justifies why us humans don't see anything unusual that can lead us to think that Gods and Goddesses really exists: this thing call the Mist, blurs our brain when something that involves mythology is happening and makes us think that something that we can actually understand is happening. I would recommend this book for people who like both, mystery and adventure, and people who love mythology and fantasy.