edit: for anyone who thinks this post is calling the series bad, reread it again. i was just merely surprised at how easy it is, nobody was complaining
When I was in 3rd grade I read the first series of Percy Jackson. I had read Harry Potter a couple of times by then and the following year I had read The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. Throughout my life I’ve come back to all of those books except for Percy Jackson, which I am doing so now in preparation of the new TV show.
I’ve read Harry Potter 10 times across my life and have never felt like I was reading a juvenile book each time I’ve read it, in fact there’s way more details to analyze in the first few books as you reread. And I guess I’m shocked with how easy the reading level is for The Lightning Thief. I really thought Percy Jackson would be one of those series’ that could be reread with more analysis as you get older (and I know this rings true for Heroes of Olympus, just merely talking about the first 5 books) but I’m shocked with how much easier TLT is to read than Sorcerer’s Stone is.
I’m enjoying it for sure, but I think it’s starting to become clear why I never revisited Percy Jackson the same way I did other books and that’s because I was able to easily comprehend them on first read through and that made it easier to feel like I didn’t have to go back and reread to see if I missed anything.
by BCDragon3000