The lightning thief audio book2/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Percy’s mom is absent for most of the narrative and the other female characters that are present (besides Annabeth) are villains and bullies. Percy’s mom (who is in an abusive relationship) is interesting and nuanced. Annabeth is smart, snarky, fearless, insecure, and has something to prove. Ares as a motorcycle head, Poseidon as a retired beach dude, and Zeus as a CEO? Nicely done. The depiction of the gods and goddesses is also cool. That the record company is the entrance to the underworld? Awesome. – I also love the way Riordan modernizes Olympus and ties the United States and its geography to the gods and goddesses. There’s lots of fun background info given to the readers, and it’s all easily woven into the narrative instead of an obvious attempt to school us about Greek mythology. As I stated above, it definitely fueled my daughter’s interest in Greek mythology (as well as other mythologies). – The reliance on Greek mythology is awesome. Unlike in the Harry Potter books where Ron and Hermione are mostly helping out because Harry is their friend (and for the good of wizard-kind), every member of this trio has his or her own separate, personal, and mostly selfish reasons for joining the quest. The best thing about the trio is that they all have their own reasons for going on the quest, and they all have something to prove. Percy and his imperfections make the perfect kind of protagonist for reluctant readers, and the fact that he is a reluctant reader himself would probably endear him even more to that particular demographic. The characters are great, especially the main trio (Percy, Annabeth, and Grover). As always, we started with book one: The Lightning Thiefas read by Jesse Bernstein. I mean, I could go on.) So after we listened to all of the Harry Potter books, I promised her we would listen to the Percy Jackson books. (How big of a fangirl? She was practically inconsolable when the series ended, she won a trivia contest at our local Borders during their movie kick-off event, she began studying Greek mythology, she was thrilled to get a copy of The Odyssey for Easter, and she was PISSED about the movie version BEFORE IT EVEN CAME OUT. To succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.In the end, you will fail to save that which matters most. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends–one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena–will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. Now Percy has just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. ![]() The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the twenty-first century. Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident he's not even sure he believes himself. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school.
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