maram ☂︎'s Reviews > Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

The only word I can think of that’s relevant to how I felt about this book is Fun, Fun, Fun . Why in the world haven’t I picked this book up when I was in middle school, I’ll never know. Lbr, what’s in the past is in the past and I’ll just have to get over the fact that I might have crawled out of my shy shell sooner if these books were in my life earlier. On a positive note, I have the whole series on hand ready for me to binge as well as 2763274 other series to look forward to. that’s #sorta #winning.

So, I’m one of those readers (if there are even such readers) that added this to my TBR solely for its fan art because ooooooo boooiiiii. !!! THE FAN ART !!! aaaaand at the time, it wasn’t even my intention to purchase the boxset but I came across it for a very cheap price so me being me, I couldn’t resist it. *imma also get outta my system about how time wasn’t on my side and that I waited a whole month for it to come in the mail but now I see that it’s totally worth it.*

With that said, I can finally jump into my semi-coherent feels that The Lightning Thief have bestowed upon me:

- #1 CHARACTERS. Percy, Grove and Annabeth = squad goals. I love how they’re all so different from each other and would literally go to the ends of the earth for each other.



- Just by reading the first line of the first page, I knew that this book would be packed with sarcasm. I didn’t care that it was a middle grade novel and that there may be some cliches here and there. I was all chill while my wonderful babies were out having the time of their lives, saving the world and of course trying not to get themselves killed in the meantime :’)

- I loved how the writing was simple in that I’m learning elements of mythology without all the crazy info dump that YA/NA fantasies usually have. Tbh, I don’t remember a time where mythology didn’t interest me yet I pretty much went into this knowing very little. I know, I know it’s weird.



- I love me some books that I can fly by, especially during a time in need aka I-found-the-cure-to-my-really-strange-reading-slump. The book is filled with hilarious banters, adventures and action and the pacing was just wonderful.

- Grover is me.
- I love how Annabeth loves to read.
- Percy is a cinnamon roll.

- Overall, I low-key want to ditch my current reads and just get to the sequel already :’)