A review by melissatrew
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

3.0

Read this one as a bedtime story with my kids. I found it to be formulaic and predictable, in terms of the story’s framework. The actual events of the book felt disjointed, as though they were included for the sake of convenience, rather than for authentic narrative value.

The 3rd and 4th grade boys I’m raising, however, couldn’t get enough. Looks like this one is another case of “I clearly wasn’t the target audience.”