Villordsutch reviews Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods…
Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? Percy Jackson provides an insider’s view with plenty of ‘tude in this illustrated collection.
A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don’t need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week.
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods rather unexpectedly dropped through my door, I’d never requested to review it as I had never read a Percy Jackson book. Don’t get me wrong I’m not anti-Percy and pro-Harry, though I admit to attempting to read a Harry Potter book but got as far as my first Knut and walked away. When it comes to fantasy I’m more of a Sir Terry Pratchett or Tolkien fan.
However in my home we’ve got ourselves a reader (B. Hicks 1989). This reader is, amongst other books, a rather huge Percy Jackson fan (also my 11 year old daughter) and she had a little freak-out when the book appeared and so she could supply me on the back-story of what has happened so far on the lead up to this book in the Percy Jackson saga. Not that this actual comes into play as gone away from this book are the usual adventures of Percy, Grover and Annabeth and instead the book is filled with Greek Legends as told by Percy himself but with more modern, pop-cultured style of twist modern which is rather amusing.
As mentioned my daughter is a big fan of the Percy Jackson saga and I passed the book over to her also, it would be cruel not to, to see get her take on it. She loved it, completing the 400+ pages in three days and finding it funny and even citing the fact that she thought that the end of the current Percy Jackson saga had begun to get a bit too romantic for her liking so this was an enjoyable change.
This isn’t a fantasy book you should be taking seriously at all and it’s obviously aimed for fans of the Percy Jackson saga who want that little bit extra to tide them over whilst they wait for the final book Heroes of Olympus to arrive on the 7th October 2014 and if you’re a Jackson fan with £12.99 to spare you’d enjoy picking this up for a quick enjoyable read.
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods is released by Puffin Books on the 7th August 2014, priced £12.99
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Originally published August 8, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
