Review: The Lightning Thief

SUMMARY:
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

REVIEW:
I didn't think I'd like this book! But once again, I was wrong! It was amazing :) No wonder why people like this book so much! 
Percy Jackson was just another name I would never have heard of. Rick Riordan did an excellent job creating this story and deserves 5 stars and a whole lot more readers. 

Rating for book: ♥♥♥♥♥
Rating for cover: ♥♥♥♥♥


Overall rating: ♥♥♥♥♥


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rick Riordan is an American author from Texas famous for his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian) and most recently, The Red Pyrimad (Kane Chronicles). He also wrote the Tres Navarre series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He also wrote book one of the 39 Clues (The Maze of Bones).

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