The Lightning Thief

The following is a guest review of a Rick Riordan book by my most wonderful grandson, Kai Ohlarik:

This book is mainly about Zeus’s lightning bolt being stolen. He was sleeping one night when somebody stole his bolt, and Percy Jackson is on a quest to find it. Percy was forbidden to be born because his powers would be too powerful. His father was Poseidon, and he was born with his father’s power.

Percy, on his quest, finds himself battling many monsters, such as Medusa.  She was disguised as a statue maker. Percy gets into trouble with Ares, the God of War. Percy fights Procrustes, known as Crusty, disguised as a water bed salesman. In reality, all the beds were stretchers.

Annabeth helps Percy on his quest. She is very smart and a quick thinker. She is the daughter of Athena. Grover is a satyr, one-half goat and one-half human. Grover helps on the quest. Satyrs try to hunt down sons and daughters of the Gods all around the world. When they find them, they bring them to a special camp called Camp Half-Blood.

This is a really, really good book. What I liked was the Gods and the battles, and the ironic ending. I would definitely recommend this book to everybody that is looking for an action packed book.

RATING: 5 out of 5 stars

Comment: Kai is nine years old and loves to read. If we have a budding author in the family, I would be thrilled! We just came back from Barnes & Noble with more books for Kai to read. Hopefully in the future, he will do more reviews for the 7 to 12 age group. While dashing between me and the T.V., as any normal nine year old would, I typed his review exactly as he verbalized it.