"You shall go west and face
the god that has turned,
You shall find what was stolen,
and see it safely returned,
You shall be betrayed by one
who calls you a friend,
And you shall fail to save what
matters most, in the end."
The Lightning Thief is the start of one of the many favorite series that I have. There's no true stop on these kind of books. They're full of mystery, facts, myths, sass and funny little jokes. The story follows a teenage boy with ADHD by the name of Percy Jackson. Now, Percy has a bit of trouble. He's never able to stay in a single school for more than a year due to him always getting the blame of weird things happening. Percy has his kind mom named Sally who dreams of being a writer and a step dad deemed "Smelly Gabe" who live in a small apartment in upstate new York. But after a little vacation goes wrong with Percy and his mom, Percy's world is turned upside down and changes into something larger than just having humans in New York...
I have a hard time not laughing each time I get to start the series again. It's family friendly, fun humor and can be used for a bedtime story if needed. Nice and easily reading with new characters around every corner. Not to mention there's plenty of throwbacks to the traditional Greek myths and heroes.
