Percy Jackson & the Olympians Boxed Set (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 1)

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reread "Sea of Monsters". Book wonderful, doesn't deserve it but review will be overshadowed by having just seen the movie. I never understand the Lynch-Dune Syndrome: omitting awesome, cinematic action sequences from the book to be replaced with lamer made-up action sequences in the movie. Doesn't make it more exciting or anything... just dumbed down. Rereading the book, among other things, was a sequence of: "Ohhhhh yeah, that's why that bit makes sense…" One of the odder (and to me, more angering) things the movie did was keeping Grover in the wedding dress to fool Polyphemus, but have P. think G. was a "housemaid" rather than prospective wife. Seriously? That's along the lines of "PATROCLUS WAS NOT ACHILLES'S COUSIN, 'TROY'!!" …Although I do appreciate that Annabeth took the Odysseus role, from the Sirens to the Nobody ploy. Very cool. It was almost dark by the time we spotted our target. The Princess Andromeda glowed on the horizon -- a huge cruiseship lit up yellow and white. From a distance, you'd think it was just a party ship, not the headquarters for the Titan lord. Then as you got closer, you might notice the giant masthead -- a dark-haired maiden in a Greek chiton, wrapped in chains with a look of horror on her face, as if she could smell the stench of all the monsters she was being forced to carry. To preserve my sanity (and where Ms. eagle-eyes wasn’t reading along) I omitted the exact route from the Williamsburg Bridge to downtown Manhattan, the giant pig’s taking a flying right “at East 42nd St to 5th Avenue” and many more. Did Riordan write this with a Lonely Planet guide open? Sheesh!

my top fav series has another features too: they are about the subjects I actually love to know about in science. (magic, parallel universes, Myths) & also they involved many awesome characters. Luke Castellan- There isn't much I can say about Luke without spoiling things, but then again that's kind of this whole review. Although Luke made some bad choices, he made up for them in the end.Too long." He tapped his watch, which was our remote control detonator. "I still have to wire the receiver and prime the charges. Ten more minutes at least." Something you want to talk about?" I asked. "You mean . . . so serious we'd have to go to St. Thomas to talk about it?" Add to that the wonderful setting, an urban fantasy based on Greek mythology. That's just box office . And the author used the setting very wisely so much so at times you are kept wondering what is actually mythology and what is inspired.

I loved seeing Percy interact with his father Poseidon, and his bond with the other campers and his half-brother.did anyone notice that each book has a kind of reference retelling of a special Greek Hero? (I didn't either, I read somewhere & this just blown my mind! Riordan is a genius!)

Unfortunately the book always feels like it was meant for young adults and no one else . It falls into typical YA book tropes and never really recovers , with events and characters action falling into a very childish behaviour, always risk free and filled with silly mistakes that really makes an adult reader groan .As with the Potter books, one of my favorite characteristics if that the books focus on friendship rather than moving into any type of romance. In book one, THE LIGHTNING THIEF, Percy (short for Perseus) is 11, and becomes a year older in each book.