Percy Jackson and the Olympians

by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson is twelve years old, has been kicked out of every school he has ever attended, and has just found out that his father is Poseidon. Camp Half-Blood, a training ground for the children of Greek gods hidden in Long Island, is both a refuge and the beginning of something much larger. Over five books Percy grows from a confused kid who can breathe underwater to the demigod at the centre of a prophecy that will determine the fate of Olympus. The original series that launched the Riordanverse, built around a voice so distinct and a mythology so confidently reimagined that it created its own genre of modern mythology fiction.

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A modern fantasy world built on the premise that the gods of every major mythology are real, immortal, and still active in human affairs. The Greek and Roman gods relocated to America when it became the seat of Western civilisation. The Egyptian gods never left the world at all. The Norse gods operate from a network of worlds connected to Scandinavia and beyond. In each case, the children of gods walk among ordinary humans, inheriting powers and problems in equal measure. Beginning with Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan's interconnected series spans five separate story lines covering Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Norse mythology, with characters crossing between them as the scope expands. What holds it together is less the shared cosmology than the shared sensibility: mythology treated as living history rather than dusty legend, heroes who are funny and frightened and loyal, and a consistent argument that the monsters worth fighting are usually the ones who claim to be on your side.

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