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Monday, 1 September 2014

August Wrap Up and September TBR!

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Thanks to Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas, my book reading this month has been terrible, I've had the worst book hangover and spent all but a fortnight reading and re-reading the Throne of Glass series. I have no regrets. I did however read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and loved it (controversially) and It's not summer without you by Jenny Han.

Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 4/5 Stars
It's not summer without you by Jenny Han  3/5 Stars

 I tried very hard to read Landline by Rainbow Rowell but I struggled to get through the beginning, but I will try and get through it in September as I'm sure I will love it. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is being put on hold for now. I haven't quite gotten over Percy yet so I am not ready to start this new series.

 Now onto my TBR for September, I am leaving it up to a surprise, my TBR's have been failing recently and I think because I've been feeling too much pressure to finish them and not letting myself read the book I've been wanting to read after buying them. This month I bought Isla and The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins so I would love to get into that this month or even The Finisher by David Baldacci. But I'm letting myself be free this month. I will however still pick from my TBR Jar when I start University again on the 22nd.

So what is your TBR?
Are you having a free month?
Will it help or will I need direction to read more?
Let me know what you think.
Have you read any?
Share yor thought?
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Tuesday, 5 August 2014

July Wrap Up and August TBR

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So guess who is doing a TBR 1 week into August? ME!

 Guess who has neglected reading in that week? ME! 

 Guess who is the laziest book blogger ever right now? ME!

 In true essence I quit my job (without a back up) and have spent the week sulking and not wearing pants. But the show must go on, as must the reading. I did terribly with my July TBR.

 In July I only read 5 books. Although I did have terrible readers block and only 3 were actually on my TBR. My TBR Jar pick was Wonder by R.J. Palacio but I read several chapters and decided it wasn't for me.

I also read:
Take Back the Skies by Luck Saxon 2/5 Stars (Unfinishable)
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler 2/5 Stars
Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Percy Jackson and The Battle of  the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 4/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)

 Honestly, I was very ambitious with my TBR! So August is gonna be a little more realistic.

My TBR Jar pick for the month is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

 I bought this book on a random him during a momentous book haul and I heard bad things about it so I never really picked it up, but we'll see how it goes.

  Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.
Next as I am in deep Percy Jackson hangover mode, I will be starting the Heroes of Olympus Series. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is the first book and I'm primarily excited to get started as I know Percy shows up in the next books. Much Excitement.

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo. They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out. Leo has a way with tools. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god.

 I will also be continuing the The Summer I Turned Pretty series with It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han and if I like it I may crack on with the next one. Its been really warm here and these books are very easy going and quick to read so they really are perfect for summer.

It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started--at Cousins Beach.

 And finally as an aggressive fan of this woman I am so pumped to start Landline by Rainbow Rowell. I have zero doubts that it will be beautiful and charming and will speak to my heart and make me all fluttery on the inside. Her writing has a way of doing that.
 Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems beside the point now.

Maybe that was always beside the point.

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?

 So that is my TBR for the month.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

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MOST PEOPLE GET PRESENTS ON THEIR SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, I GET A PROPHECY THAT COULD SAVE OR DESTROY THE WORLD.

It happens when you're the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, I turn sixteen and the fate of the entire world is on me. But no pressure. Now Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City. And the dreaded monster Typhon is also heading our way. So it's me and forty of my demigod friends versus untold evil.


 I couldn't stop myself from cracking on with the last book...and my Gods, was it a worthy ending. First off the entire book was basically one big battle. I find with series like this that the end battle is never as good as we hope it is. But this is the exception to the rule. The battle just got better and better. We started off with destroying the Princess Andromeda and the death of one of the campers and this really sets the tone of the book. 

 This book got steadily darker throughout, we start with tragedy at the death of a camper and we see the camp still not back to normal after the previous battle. We see the struggled relationship between Annabeth and Percy which just broke my heart and yet things with Rachel appear to be...err going places. Though I never actually thought him and Rachel would end  up together. But when Percy sees Annabeth there was just this lovely moment.
Percy basically bathes in the River Styx, and has to think about something to hold onto his mortal soul. When he thought about Annabeth I was just all gooey on the inside. It was major cute-town.
But yeah away from the romance, the battle itself did feel a little long winded. The Titans did scare the be-jesus out of me. I don't know why but just the idea of them terrified me. We see many of them in the final battle and one of them even becomes like a giant tree which was totally awesome. Percy really takes a lot of responsibility during the battle. He has this "Achilles heel"part on his back which is the point of his mortality therefore not allowing his new powers to take over him. Percy literally destroys so many people, he was so cool just destroying people left right and center.
But the battle isn't really what sticks in my head about this book. What sticks is seeing how the characters I have known have developed throughout the series. Tyson became a warrior, Grover became the new Pan and Annabeth and Percy finally got together. Not to mention  Rachel literally becoming The Oracle. So much had happened and changed and at the time I hadn't even noticed. 

 I don't think there is much I can say to turn you to this series or to even sum up what is it and what happened. But it's a classic that is no doubt. I think you should read it. There is this indescribable pull that lures you in and makes you adore these characters. It is something else entirely that you want to be a part of. 

 Read it.
Enjoy.
Get back to me!

 God what a journey this series has been.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Percy Jackson and The Battle of The Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

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Warning: Spoilers (duh.)

 Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.
You guys have followed me as I started and am ultimately going to finish this series. I left Percy a few weeks ago and have basically planned to read a book per month, but I fear I shall have to destroy the next one  a lot sooner than that as this was UH-MAY-ZING! This book didn't follow the typical Percy Jackson Format, I mean it did with the myths coming to life and all that excellent stuff. But in general they got straight into the quest, the whole keeping the prophecy a secret bit was so fresh and exactly what I needed from this series.

 I'm gonna jump straight into what I wanted in this book. I wanted me some series Percy/Annabeth shipping...and did it deliver? I'm not sure. I thought at first with the "date" and the jealousy about Rachel. Then as we got on about the prophecy I figured that had something to do with Percy and then when she revealed she would lose someone she loved and she didn't know if it was Luke or Percy...I literally squealed. And then Hera showed up and ruined the whole thing. Then there was the kiss before he went off and her misery at the thought of him dead. I feel like it delivered on those terms but the ending. It just depressed me. I mean I understand Annabeth has all these feelings for Luke and so she is upset about Kronos ermmmm taking over his body #AWKIES. But you could feel the distance between her and Percy, you could feel all the bonding that had happened in the book drift away and that was somewhat heartbreaking.

 Although I can't help but ship a little Jackson/Dare love either. Rachel is awesome she can see through the mist and she goes into battle without all the Half Blood Magic. I just thought she was a really great character and I am so glad she came back. Will she be in the next one? I gods damn hope so! (If you'll excuse the pun).

 I felt the book got a lot older and darker than it's predecessor, some of the death scenes were a lot more violent, the battle, the rise of Kronos and even Kronos in general, having him there and the way he was described and talked and with Nico's powers. It was all a little scarier than the other books had been. I am incredibly scared of Kronos and the other Titans, like just hearing about them terrifies me and having the constant threat of them amped up in this book was great. Things are really starting to happen. I mean the Kronos' Army v.s Camp Half Blood battle was incredible.

 I loved Quinto, his entire story Arc was really nice, I didn't figure out the twist and the whole demonisation and then redemption of him was really lovely to read, it was a nice little bit to take away from all the suffering that had been seen in this book. Speaking of suffering, Nico is slowly becoming one of my favourite characters. His struggle with Bianca's death really takes it toll and also the segregation from the rest of Camp Half Blood really broke my heart. The fact there is no Hades cabin actually made me mad. The way he had to sit alone in a dark corner, not welcome anywhere because of who his father is. I really felt for the kid and I was so glad when he showed up at Percy's house at the end. Plus how awesome are his powers, like seriously, so cool.

The thing about these books is that there are these dark moments followed by a part that's almost mocking itself. The sacrifice of Happy Meals to raise the dead and such and yet there are also the most beautiful quotes and observations you wouldn't expect from a "childrens" book. I'm already grieving the loss of this series and I haven't even finished it yet.
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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

June Wrap Up & July TBR

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In all Word Nerd honesty, I admit my TBR's are...ambitious. I want to read everything immediately. But then life gets in the way, commitments, book hangovers, book purchases that you just cant wait to start and I find I don't stick to them religiously.

This month I read 8 books, 5 of them from my laid out TBR list. Much Pride, Many accomplish, WOW! But I also diverted off my beaten track of what I would read if I finished those. I ended up not reading Frozen by Erin Bowman or Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor. Why you ask? Because I just wasn't feeling it. I find I'm more likely to enjoy a book if I'm reading it because it's what I want to read, not because I agreed to read it so I have to. If I'm not feeling it, I'll come back to it. At some point.

 Okay so in June I read the following:

 The One by Kiera Cass 3/5 stars.
Tears of Heaven by R.A McCandless 1/5 stars. (Unfinishable)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 4/5 stars.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 5/5 stars.
More Than This by Patrick Ness 4/5 stars.
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 4/5 stars.
Popular by Wagenen, Maya Van 5/5 stars.
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang 2/5 stars (Unfinishable)

And onto July. This is an equally ambitious month with 5 books I selected then 1 from my TBR Jar.

From Bottom to Top.

 We start with Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler. My sister gave this book to me a few months ago when I was going through a bad break up, which was a sweet thought but it was too soon. A lot changes in a few months and so finally I'm reading the book. Really excited for it, seems right up my street and might give me a new perspective on the experience.

 Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship

 Next we have my TBR Jar pick for this month Wonder by R. J. Palacio. This was a complete impulse buy a long time ago and I don't think I ever even thought I'd read it but that's the point of the jar. So I'm excited to see what I've been missing out on.

 August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?

 Naturally I'll be reading the next book in the Percy Jackson series. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. Having read it's three predecessors, I kind of know what I'm expecting in terms of writing style but I am excited to see how Percy and Annabeth develop, and what happens from the fallout of the last book. Nothing better than returning to Camp Half-Blood. 

 Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.


Next is the book I am actually currently reading. Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon. I have heard so many good things about this book and Saxon even did a Celaena Sardothien cosplay and had her book recommended by Sarah J Maas so there was no way I wasn't going to read it. I mean she might just be the coolest person ever and the book actually sounds UH-MAH-ZING!
Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She’s one of the privileged – she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before her dad can marry her off to a government brat and trap her forever.

So Catherine becomes Cat, pretends to be a kid escaping the Collections, and stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. As they leave Anglya behind and brave the storms that fill the skies around the islands of Tellus, Cat’s world becomes more turbulent than she could ever have imagined, and dangerous secrets unravel her old life once and for all .


I also decided as I read More Than This last month I would take a crack at A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. It's an incredibly short book and so I'm sure I will fly through it and hopefully enjoy it as much as I enjoyed his other books.

 The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth

 Finally I will be incorporating a classic I have owned and skimmed a billion times but never took the time to read. From reading quotes I feel like me and Ernest Hemingway would be best friends, although we wouldn't call ourselves that,  we'd just be drinking buddies and talk about how hard it is to be intelligent and happy. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway will hopefully live up to it's stellar reputation. 

 In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

 The book already contains what I think is the most romantic dialogue I have ever read in my life. 


Anyway that is what I plan to read this month but I'm sure if any of that changes, you'll be te first to know. So tell me, What are you reading? Have you enjoyed any of the books I'm about to start? Let me know your reccomendations! Come on lets starts conversing internet.

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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Percy Jackson and The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

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 Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

 But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...
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Having finally gotten to the part of The Percy Jackson series I know literally nothing about, I can safely say, I am not disappointed, finally the format changed and it wasn't as innocent and predictable as it was before.

 We BOOM! BANG! and CRASH! straght into the action with new heroes, lost friends and the introduction of The Hunters. I loved them I would join them in a heart beat, they are basically the Greek equivalent of angry feminists. Only they kill stuff and have super powers.

 So within the first couple chapters, Annabeth is kidnapped or taken or just gone. This left me worrying that the book would be very male dominated, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but as a girl, I do enjoy seeing other girls kick ass. Luckily Thalia and The Hunters were there to bring in some intense 1990's style girl power.

 Thalia for me is one of those characters that is severely underdeveloped, sure you can tell me shes rock-chick like and she asks like an ass sometimes, but I still don't know anything about her, I can't tell her motives or why she does what she does. She's promptly removed from the whole prophecy situation aswell with her joining the hunters, therefore she will never be 16, solving everyone's problem. If it was gonna be that easy, don't get me all hyped for her return, I want some battle, some inner conflict to be good, GIVE ME SOMETHING!

 We are given Hades' children (though we don't know that yet) and one is quickly killed off (or is she?) and the other decides to run off and become evil because of this. But worse than that Percy decides not to tell anyone, I mean come on dude, he could be the kid in the prophecy in what world is keeping that a secret a good idea, seriously. Zoe is by far my favourite character in this book. She was sassy ad tormented, there were motives behind how she was and we were given more and more as the book went on. She's the characters development queen.

The beginnings of romance with Percy and Annabeth is terribly adorable, his book is lacks on Annabeth but the encounters they have are just the sweetest and the scene with Aphrodite when she basically suggests that she writes all the love stories of the world and she cant wait to make there's tragic and see how it all turns out. I just thought that was hilarious. She's all YOU ARE GONNA LOVE HER! and he's all NAH! and then he like panics when he thinks she's leaving. Also why is everyone in love with Luke. I mean is he really that fit, all the girls want this guy and he is like seriously cray cray with his daddy issues.


I did miss Percy's brother and his mum, they were just kind off pushed to the side to make way for the adventure but I'm not complaining. I think as Percy grows the books become much more adult and I am loving it. I can't wait to see how things turn out.

ANNABETH & PERCY?
I SHIP IT!

 I also ship GROVER & PAN! They deserve each other!

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Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Percy Jackson and The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

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Warning: Spoilers (duh)

The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a "half blood" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment. In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come.

 After being incredibly impressed with the first book in this series I was expecting big things from Sea of Monsters. It was an excellent book but I did only give it 3.5 / 5 stars. There was nothing necessarily wrong with it, it just didnt excite me as much as the first book.

 I think it was the format was pretty much the same as the first so I kind of got the feel about everything that was gonna happen. 

 Percy was at school, gets expelled due to monster shenanigans, we get a little camp drama and then quest time. In the quest they constantly run into trouble that they overcome in each chapter and eventually succeed. Now there is nothing wrong with this format, it worked well in the first book and was just as good as the first book. I just wanted more, a little more edge. Percy's abandonment issues didn't really come forth as much in this book and seem a little forgotten but hey ho. 

 I loved Clarisse in this book, I think she's the character in which its easy to imagine then very two dimensionally, yet in this book she got some depth which is really beautiful to see. Annabeth and Percy's relationship has already changed without me even noticing which is also really lovely and I thought Grover's storyline was hilarious and gave me  many belly laughs imagining him in a wedding dress. 

 I am loving this underlying plot of Kronos though, and Thalia coming back to life, I've seen the film so I knew this would happen, but it did still make me scream out at 1am like 'WOW!' it was an excellent ending. 
MOVIE COMPARISON TIME!

I couldn't help but compare it to the movie of course and this one was a lot closer to the book than the first. It was still incredibly different though, I really don't understand the filmmakers desire to turn its back on the original plot. Very frustrating.

Overall, Sea of Monsters felt like the first book but not as  fresh and insightful but it is setting up a very interesting narrative, the whole prophecy idea I am just dying to figure it out. Now however I am in uncharted territory. I don't know what happens next and I am going to be avoiding spoilers like the plague or that one really drunk girl at a party. I can't wait to find out what happens and watch the plot unfold. 

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Sunday, 18 May 2014

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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Warning: Spoilers (duh)

 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a greek god.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive.

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea


Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief was my TBR Jar pick for this month. I went into having read the first chapter when I bought it several months ago. Admittedly I struggled to get into the mindset of, well, a prepubescent boy. However, three chapters in and I completely forgot about that and was overcome by Percy's endearing narration. The chapter titles and his innocently funny commentary on his life is just lovely.

 I did have some issue with the act of "coincidences" like as soon as something needed to be known to the audience, we would be told it and then the thing related to that would happen rather than building up the knowledge throughout. Like everytime the book would draw up comparisons between a greek myth you know immedieiately this was about to happen.

 "Like OMG what were the odds you would tell me that just before it happen. No way!"

 Although really I suppose that is a testament to the writing. This is after all a children's series and yet I am holding it up to to YA and Adult fiction standards (As much as I hate those terms). This book is incredibly complex and sophisticated for a 9-11 year old fiction (as Waterstones.com informs me).
MOVIE COMPARISON TIME.

Obviously I hadn't read the book when the movie came out and I enjoyed the film all in all at first. I didn't particularly see why fans were so upset about it. Now I know dem feels! I feel your rage. They changed the entire plot. Annabeth was made some weird gladiator type character when really she is more of a Hermione Granger (and lets be honest we can make Percy Jackson/Harry Potter comparisons until were blue in the face). Then we have the Thalia introductions. We crack on with it rather than waiting until the 2nd movie when it becomes fully relevant. Therefore it sets up plots for the series in the first book, wonderful, just what I like. Also the fake legs and Chiron's horse butt wheelchair disguise, made a lot more sense on the page. The book is undoubtedly better.

 Although, Logan Lerman. Am I right?!

Also in the book you really get a sense of Percy s abandonment issues. The part where he talks to his father and Poseidon says he wishes he was never born. Although we can understand his view because Percy is (apparently) going to have a terrible, fearful life and yet as a kid to hear that from your recently discovered father is just awful.  I felt so bad for him and that's when I realised I'd really connected with Percy.

Percy Jackson is also The Master of Sass he has what could be seen as a really bad attitude but I found it so touch in cheek funny. When he mails Medusa's head to Olympus. God he's so cool. 

I could talk all day about the other characters, and they were enchanting and smart and witty and fun. But the book is called Percy Jackson for a reason. He makes the book, the story, even if you replaced him with someone else, it wouldn't be the same. I for one can't wait to see where Percy goes next and return to Camp Half Blood.  




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