Author: Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief is the first book of the series of
fantasy novels, Percy Jackson and the Olympians which are based on Greek
Mythology. As the topic suggests this book is about Percy Jackson, who has ADHD
and dyslexia, and was expelled many times from school. In the first night of
Percy’s trip to Long Island with his mother, his best friend in the school who
revealed as a satyr came and warned them that Percy’s in danger. Then, Percy’s
mother drove them to Half-blood Camp. They were chased by Minotaur on the way.
And Percy’s mother was caught by the monster and disappeared in a shower of
golden light. In the camp, Percy’s discovered that he’s the son of Poseidon and
started a quest with Grover, the Satyr, and Annabeth, the daughter of Athena to
save his mother and recovered the Lightning Bolt to prevent the war between
Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. During the quest, they faced different attacks from the
Furies, Medusa, Echidna, the Chimera, the Ares, the God of war, Procrustes, and
etc.
I think it’s really a brilliant idea to create a novel
based on Greek mythology. Not only is it a very funny book with many gods,
monsters, and places in Greek myths, it’s also very educative. I’ve learnt so
much about Greek myths from this book. To be perfectly honest, I actually had
no inkling of Greek myths before I read this book.
The book is quite long; the hardcover version is 384
pages. In the 384 pages, the author covered their encounters with different
monsters, incidents, and special places, at least 10 of them I think, which is
enough to satisfy my appetite for more gods, and more interesting things. It’s also
a fast-paced book. I felt like every thing it’s solved in a few minutes, which
is also one of the reasons I liked it so much. What I loved the most among them
was the hell, which is the realm of the Lord of the Dead, Hades. The author
made quite a detailed description of it, including, elements like, the Asphodel
Field, Elysium Field, River Styx, the palace,
Cerberus, the pit of the Tartarus, which made it sound real.
As a non-native English speaker, the language in the
book is what I concerned very much, as if the language it’s too difficult, I
would be very tired of looking up the dictionary. It’s good that the language
used is simpler compared to many other novels which suit my demand very well.
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