Percy Jackson and the Olympian

Percy Jackson and the Olympians By: Jeffrey

Have you ever wondered why Percy Jackson books are so popular? I will give you a review of the series today. If you never read the series before, I highly encourage you to read one. Here is my review: Percy Jackson’s end of the life started in the first book, The Lightning Thief. He was in a field trip with his school(Yancy Academy), to the Greek Legend Museum. Is Percy a bad kid? You could say that. He has been kicked out of every school that he went to. For example, in his previous school, they went on a field trip to the Revolutionary War Battlefield. Percy was curious of the cannons and he went to them. He then got so curious that he fired one. Percy wasn’t aiming for the school bus but he still got fired anyway. So anyway, Percy was going to the Greek Legend Museum with his school and he thought this field trip might be good because of the teacher that was guiding him. There was Mr. Brunner, a very nice history teacher, Ms. Greyhol, a very nice science teacher, and Mr. Doju, a very nice social studies teacher. Unfortunately, there was Mrs. Dodds, a mean math teacher. Ms. Dodds didn’t like Percy and his best friend Grover and instead, she preferred Nancy Bobofit, a total kleptomaniac and Percy’s worst enemy. At the museum, Percy and Grover started braking out a conversation and Mr. Brunner was guiding people through the museum. They saw statues of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and more gods and godesses. Soon, it was lunchtime. Percy and Nancy started fighting and then Percy spanked Nancy so hard that Nancy told Mrs. Dodds. Percy had to go to a room with Mrs. Dodds and when Percy was there, Mrs. Dodds roared then she turned into a Furie monster! That means Mrs. Dodds wasn’t a regular person, she was a monster. Right when the Furie lunged, Mr. Brunner threw a ballpoint pen at Percy and told him to uncap it. Percy obeyed and the pen turned into a sword! Percy quickly killed the Furie. Percy then learned he was a half-blood, which means half human half Greek God. He found out that he was the son of Poseidon(sea god). He went to Camp Half-Blood where he learned to fight like a half-blood. He met new people like Annabeth Chase, daughter of the godess Athena, Charles Beckendorf, son of the god Hephaestus, and Luke Castellan, son of the god Hermes. He also found out Mr. Brunner was a centaur named Chiron(activities director of Camp Half-Blood) and Grover who is a satyr. One day, Chiron wanted to talk to Percy. This is what he said “ Zeus’s lightning bolt is the strongest weapon on Earth…… It has been stolen.” Percy got sent on a quest to find the master bolt with Grover and Annabeth. He also found out that his mom had been turned into a pile of gold. On the way, he battles a Minotaur monster and gets a new weapon, the Minotaur horn. He also got the ballpoint pen weapon, named Riptide. To learn who steals the master bolt, read The Lightning Thief. In the second book, The Sea of Monsters, Grover gets kidnapped by a Cyclops. The thing is that Cyclops’ like to eat satyrs and this Cyclops thinks Grover is a lady Cyclops so he wants to marry Grover. On the day of the wedding, the Cyclops will sniff around for a satyr to eat which means he will eat GROVER! Meanwhile, a daughter of Zeus named Thalia got turned into a tree before. Now the tree is poisoned. Zeus thinks Chiron poisoned the tree so Zeus fired Chiron. The new activities director is a careless man named Tantalaus so he sends Clarisse La Rue, son of Ares to free Grover. Percy thinks Clarisse won’t try her best because she is a bully so Percy and Annabeth sneak off to free Grover. They arrive right at the wedding and the Cyclops has catched Grover. Grover somehow convinces the Cyclops that he tastes better with mango slices and the Cyclops says that the wedding is postponed until tomorrow. That means that the Cyclops is going to marry Clarisse and eat Grover!!! How is Percy going to free Grover and Clarisse and how is Percy going to convince Zeus that Chiron didn’t poison Thalia’s tree? Read The Sea of Monsters to find out. The third book is called The Titan’s Curse. The Titan’s are bad guys and now they have trapped down Annabeth and Artemis. Artemis is a goddess of archery and maidens. The Hunters(Artemis’ workers) want to free Artemis and Percy and Grover want to free Annabeth. The Hunter in charge named Zoe Nightshade goes with Percy, Grover, and Thalia(who is no longer a tree) on a quest along with another Hunter named Bianca de Angelo to save Annabeth and Artemis. In the middle of the quest they all face a Titan general and a manticore monster named Dr. Thorn and some skeleton monsters which they had some struggles against and Bianca de Angelo dies. When they get to Mount Tam(the Titan base where Annabeth and Artemis are trapped), they face a strong Titan named Atlas who is also Zoe’s dad. Will Annabeth and Artemis be saved? Will anyone else die? Read the book The Titan’s Curse to find out. The fourth book is called Battle of the Labyrinth and the Titan’s and their monsters are getting ready to attach Camp Half-Blood. They are using the Labyrinth to get in the camp because there are magic borders around the camp so they can’t charge in. Annabeth leads a quest to the Labyrinth with Percy, Grover, and Percy’s half- brother Tyson. They try to find Daedulus(the creater of the maze) to stop the Titan’s from going through the maze. Since the maze goes around the world, they start like in New York and in one hour, they are in San Francisco. They land on the Hoover Dam where they meet Briares, who is a Hundred-Handed One good guy monster. In the Hoover Dam, they meet Kampe, a poison monster. They finally get in an entrance of the Labyrinth and Kampe is left outside. When they finally get help by a regular person named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, they make it to the Labyrinth where they meet Daedulus. He says he has given the answer of the maze to Camp Half-Blood to Luke(who has turned bad) and they are preparing an attack. Percy becomes angry and he tells Chiron and the whole camp prepares for battle. Will Camp-Half Blood fall to pieces or will they win this attack? Read Battle of the Labyrinth to find out. The last book is called The Last Olympian. The Great Prophecy has been finally read and Percy has to find a way to defeat Kronos(the Titan King). If Percy wins, Kronos dies, if Kronos wins, Percy dies. Percy and his friends fight all the monsters on Earth. He gets help from the owner of the Hudson river and the East river because he gave both of them a sand dollar. Many good ones die and the final battle is held. Will Percy die painfully? Or will Kronos die for good? Read the Last Olympian to find out. I hope you haven’t fallen asleep reading my post. What is your favorite book series? If you have read these book, who is your favorite character? If you haven’t, would you like to read one of the Percy Jackson books?