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.