Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief

57/375 pages
Rick Riordan
Review by Shelly Ness

I am reading a book called "The Lightning Thief" though I haven't realized why it is called that, since it has nothing to do with lightning (yet). It is from the Percy Jackson series and it is written by Rick Riordan. The book is about a twelve year old boy who has a strange life; his dad got lost in the sea before he was born. His mom tries to send him to the farthest school she can find. His sweet mother is married to some jerk named Gabe (but Percy calls him Smelly Gabe because he smells like rotten beer.). He has dyslexia and is kicked out of school for the 6th time in 6 years (he got an F+). Then he sees weird things and turns out his best friend, Grover is a satyr (Half-Goat, Half-Man). But worse, his mother dissapears with gold mist when a big, muscly creature tried to choke and kill her and Percy.

The setting takes place in a museum. The class goes to a field trip and Mrs. Dodds (who Grover and Mr. Brunner who was the Latin teacher, say she doesn't exist because if he doesn't believe she is real then he will be safe.) attacks Percy.

"... heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff." (Page 2)

" But Mr. Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so i had hopes." (Page 2)

The other setting is Smelly Gabe's apartment.

"I walked into our little apartment, hoping my mom would be home from work. Instead, Smelly Gabe was in the living room, playing poker with his buddies." (Page 30,31)

Another setting is in the forest when Grover, Percy and his mother are running away from the monster.

They are also in a shop, in the school and in a nice "cabin" in Montauk, Long Island.

" We'd been going there since I was a baby. My mom had been going even longer. She never exactly said, but I knew why the beach was special to her. It was the place where she'd met my dad.  As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face..." (Page 37).

This story takes place now days, I'll say since there is a city and a school and transportation but it's very mythological because it has weird animal - humans.

I really like this book because Percy is telling the story and you know how scared he is or what he is feeling.



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