A review by dobbsthedog
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

I… did not enjoy this book. Like, it was fine. And I’m sure that as an MG book it’s great, but it just was too young for me. I have read other MG and didn’t have this same problem. Maybe it was lazy writing, maybe it was being a new writer (idk anything about Rick Riordan, if this was his debut or not), but there were just too many times that Percy and his crew sort of oops-ed their way out of trouble, things were explained in a very offhand way and way after the fact, with no real reasoning behind it. I think if I was a middle grade kid reading this it probably would have been great, because reading at that age, you’re not going to pick up on these things.

But, as I said, I’ve read other MG books that didn’t have these same problems. Maybe the rest of the series gets better? Idk, I think I’ll be stopping here.