The Lightning Thief

I started a new book a couple of weeks ago and it is pretty good. The book is The Lightning Thief. It is the first book in the series of five. It is really a good book. It brings all types of different formats into the book and has a little bit of everything for everyone. It is got action and talks about gods and goddesses. It has drama, romance; it has happy moments and scary moments. It is really an all around good book that I would recommend to anyone. So this book is about this kid whose name is Percy Jackson and he is a half-blood. Which is half human and half god. So there are more than one of these kinds of people in the world and he actually ends up in a camp called camp Half –Blood where only the half –bloods can enter. Percy is the son of Poseidon. So basically Zeus had his magical and powerful lightning bolt get stolen from him. So Zeus accuses Poseidon of stealing the master bolt and declares that if he does not have it back by summer solstice he will declare war on him. So Percy and his two friends, Grover and Annabeth, go out on a quest to find the missing master bolt. It is believed to be in the possession of Hades. So they begin their mission and have to find these pearls that will get them in and out of the underworld where Hades lives. But before they get there they have to go through several battles with people that are trying to stop them from getting the pearls. So while down in the underworld they learn that Hades does not have it. It was actually in Percy’s book bag. He later learned that it was planted there by Luke. Hades’s wife helped the kids get out safely with the pearls and Percy went to find Luke at the tower to get the bolt. In the end he was able to receive the bolt back to his Zeus so that they would not go to war. So Percy goes back to camp and there is where Luke told him he planted it and that he is working for Kronos and that Kronos is planning to defeat the Olympians. Percy then nearly dies from a scorpion but was saved by his teacher and some nymphs. This really was a good story and it’s much better to read then have me tell you about it. There is lots of imagery in this book and it is just an all around good book.

Mockingjay ending

I was able to finish the book Mockingjay. I have to say it was extremely good. There were certainly a few twists that shocked me and that is what made it so good. A major part of this ending was the whole shooting of the leader of the revolution. So Katniss realizes that the leader of the revolution was a bad person after president snow began to tell her that Coin, who is the leader, is the real bad guy. She was killing kids and doing things that she should not have been doing. She also inflicted pain to Katniss by killing her sister. So Katniss took in revenge and decided what was right. She decided that she does not need to kill president snow because he is already dying anyways and he is not the real problem. She also decides that she would vote in favor of having the hunger games again. Isn’t that what they were fighting for so they could stop things like the hunger games? It was a vote to see if they would want to punish the citizens of the capitol for doing that to the district. Then here comes the plot twist, she kills the leader of the revolution. How much more dramatic does it get? When I read that I was shocked that she had done that. It was pretty brutally done. So at the execution of President Snow she got the honor of killing him with her famous bow and arrow. But instead of shooting Snow she shot Coin and killed her. Like I get that she was a jerk and all but she did it on stage in front of everybody. That is crazy. The face of the revolution killed the leader of the revolution instead of going after the target they had all along. That is a shocker. She then was a mess for awhile. She blamed herself for the death of all those people and her sister. She had to go to trial and everything. Of course at her trial she was acquitted and was able to move back to district twelve with Peeta. Her and Peeta were able to have a pretty romantic relationship after Katniss regrouped and was not all depressed and grieving about the deaths all the time. She was able to put most of that aside and move on. She and Peeta also had children together. That to me was an amazing ending. When I do get time I will definitely reread that again because I thought it was a great book. I would recommend this book to everyone and if you have not read the first two, then you should do that too.