Percy Jackson: Rick Riordan
To be honest, Percy Jackson is probably the series I have read the most. I started reading it when I found it in our local library when I was 11. I read almost the entire book before I even left the library, then I bought the others and spent the entire weekend reading them.
They were just the balance of reading I needed, because other books for people of my age, I found too boring and I was forbidden from reading many of the young adult books because they were allegedly too inappropriate (thanks parents 🙄). This was also before I got the Harry Potter books, which I would also have liked back then too.
I read and reread the Percy Jackson series so many times that I can still recite pieces of the books by heart and still remember every encounter, monster and deity in the series. It satisfied my love of mythology and also fast paced action. The cross over between the ancient and modern world gave the old myths a new spin and kept them interesting.
I have read pretty much everything that Rick Riordan has written, but Percy Jackson remains my favourite, because of how new and exciting it felt to me at the time.
They were just the balance of reading I needed, because other books for people of my age, I found too boring and I was forbidden from reading many of the young adult books because they were allegedly too inappropriate (thanks parents 🙄). This was also before I got the Harry Potter books, which I would also have liked back then too.
I read and reread the Percy Jackson series so many times that I can still recite pieces of the books by heart and still remember every encounter, monster and deity in the series. It satisfied my love of mythology and also fast paced action. The cross over between the ancient and modern world gave the old myths a new spin and kept them interesting.
I have read pretty much everything that Rick Riordan has written, but Percy Jackson remains my favourite, because of how new and exciting it felt to me at the time.
Comments
Post a Comment