Synopsis :
Percy
Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And
that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the
gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of
Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's
angered a few of them. Zeus' master lightning bolt has been stolen, and
Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus' stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus' stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
I was deciding between Divergent Series or Percy Jackson Series right after I read Mockingjay and I finally decided on Percy Jackson Series instead as I have all the books in electronic format whereas for Divergent Series, I only have the first book Divergent and not Insurgent nor Allegiant.
Because I have watched the movies Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson and Sea of Monsters, I thought I’ll start with book #3, The Titan’s Curse. However, in the end, I thought I should start from the first book and I am glad I did.
The
storyline in the book is quite similar from the movie but with changes
made to adapt to screen time and other cinematic reasons to make the
movie more interesting I guess. All in all, it was a good decision and
the book is able to connect the dots that sometimes movies are not able
to do. I can’t really remember the movie as I watched it a few years
back with the meeting with Madusa as my favourite scene and I am glad to
recapture that in the book as well. The meeting and fight between Luke
and Percy towards the end was different too but in a good way as I like
both the movie and the book.
So,
if you have watched the two movies like me and decided not to go direct
to the third book, I would advise you not to. It is good to recapture
the story from the beginning, the way the series is meant to do.
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