Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Ratings45
Average rating4.3
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Ratings45
Average rating4.3
"Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection"--
Series
16 primary books22 released booksCamp Half-Blood Chronicles is a 32-book series with 16 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Rick Riordan, Рик Риърдън, and 9 others.
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Percy is a fantastic and wonderful narrator, and the audiobook narrator was really good at finding Percy's voice for it, which was great. I think putting lots of modern references in the dialogue (like tempting a god with cookies) was a clever way to make the storylines feel more modern too, like the amount of times the word ‘babe' shows up in this book is honestly probably too many. I wasn't kidding when I said the male gods all sound like jocks, lmao.
As a remnant of the old stories, I'm sure, there was a repetitiveness in the stories which was rather tedious at times. The amount of times Zeus raped females (because they weren't always goddesses or humans) is appalling (and Poseidon did it too!), and the gods getting mad at each other and killing someone else out of revenge or jealousy is just 🤦🏻♀️. You can only listen to the same thing happen to different people by the same people so many times before it goes stale.
Otherwise it was great.
Percy Jackson tells contemporary readers everything they need to know about the Greek gods.
What can I say, I love anything written by Rick Riordan. The only reason why I'm not giving this 5 stars is because this isn't an actual Percy Jackson novel. It's a book about Greek gods, filled with beautiful sarcasm and gorgeous illustrations.
