Percy Jackson? I think girls know him well as the main character of the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. However, I won’t talk about the movie here, because I was personally upset. It was well-visualised, yeah, but the plot deviated too much from the book. As a based-on-novel film, I honestly can’t appreciate it like I appreciate the first two movies of The Chronicles of Narnia, which are The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. They barely changed the originality of the novels, authorised by C.S. Lewis.

These series have a relatively simple plot. Possibly, Rick Riordan, the author, made the story for children or young readers. Although their plot is really alike with Harry Potter, but they are much simpler. However, if you are a heavy reader (I mean, you have read many novels which have complicated plots), you would be completely disappointed. It’s because, in the novels, there are too many “constant resolutions” to each of the problems. For example, when the characters are losing a war, there’s almost certainly help from outside. And what the writer explain about it is only by writing “Don’t ask me why they could come, but they bring a great help” or something like that. Anyway, that’s only my personal opinion :)

Overall, these books are good, though. I have just finished them, and I think the fourth book is the best. Anyone interested?

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