the lightning thief

Welcome to my first book review, today I will be summarizing the first book of the Percy Jackson series: the lightning thief. 

summary:

At the end of  Percy's 6th-grade field trip to a museum, after a bully claimed that he pushed her into the water fountain, his math teacher found this to be the perfect opportunity to pull him aside, turn into a fury, accuse him of being a lightning thief and kill him. thankfully she failed that last part, all thanks to Percy's Spanish teacher who passed him a pen that magically turned into a sword.

A couple days later Percy and Grover, his best friend, end up at camp half-blood after meeting with a minotaur that kidnapped his mom and killing said minotaur while almost getting killed in the process.

At the camp half-blood Percy finds his old Spanish teacher, a bully, a smart blonde girl and he also finds out his dad is Poseidon, the god of the sea. after a couple days at camp, Percy decides to leave camp with Grover and Annabeth, the smart blonde, to go find Zeus's master bolt everyone claims he stole so that there wouldn't be a giant war between the gods.

On his quest with his friends Percy meets enough obstacles for a lifetime:

• they meet more furies
• they met a crazy snake lady
• Percy falls off the gateway arch
• they meet the war god
• they go to a waterpark of love
• they get a drive with a zoo
• they shop for waterbeds
• they go to the underworld

In the end, they saved Percy's mom, meet their godly parents, and end the war.

At the very end Percy gets backstabbed by luke, a camper when he first got to camp, he brought Percy to the woods and tried to kill him with a deadly scorpion.

my opinion:

The lightning thief has a total of 375 pages and 22 chapters, every one of them was enjoyable. when I first read this book I thought it was amazing, but now that I've read the other books I've realized that it's just ok, the next books have much more action, with makes them more interesting. in the lightning thief it takes quite a while to get to the good part of the book, it takes 5 chapters until they get to camp. I love all of the friendship in it, Percy and Grovers' relationship is amazing, and Percy and Annabeths' relationship is really funny because she pretends to not like him but she has a real soft spot for him. i really liked the plot twist at the end when Luke goes rogue. Overall it still is a good book. would I recommend it to someone else, yes 100%, as long as they're planning on reading the rest of the series, because that's what really makes this book great.