Favorite moments of The Lightning Thief:

• that opening scene; mrs. Dodds is hilarious, plus Percy’s shock is priceless. I mean, I’ve never, uh, vaporized my math teacher
• Smelly Gabe. And his incredibly important poker game that Percy regretted interrupting
• Sally Jackson is the best!!! Seriously, think about everything that she sacrifices for Percy. She marries smelly Gabe to protect her son, and is overall incredible
• Percy mailing Medusa’s head to the gods. Imagine getting that in the mail
• Peter Johnson. Must I say more?

Commentary on parts of The Sea of Monsters

• George and Martha… hey is that like George and Martha in those picture books? Anyways, those snakes are hilarious. And Hermes is great too
• Oh yeah, and Percy got turned into a guinea pig, that’s nice
• The chariot races haha and Clarisse won
• Speaking of Clarisse, she completely blew Grover’s cover there. And look where that got her.
• Poseidon’s letter to Percy is so helpful “brace yourself”

Great stuff from The Titan’s Curse

• Nico!!!!!! He actually asks really good questions, and it ends up helpful that he’s obsessed with mythomagic.
• The Hunters of Artemis; Zoë Nightshade is so awesome, even though she needs to catch up on modern day English
• Apollo!! He’s so funny, and his poetry is pretty awful in a hilarious way
• Thalia torches New England: the chapter title says it all
• Blackjack 🙂
• Apollo… I mean Fred (sorry didn’t mean to blow his cover)
• Oh gosh Aphrodite
• Visiting the Hoover Dam. Again, Zoë, the English you know hasn’t been used in centuries
• RACHEL ELIZABETH DARE!!! ‘Do you always try to kill people when they sneeze?’

Stuff I liked in The Battle of the Labyrinth:

• The scene at the school + Rachel Elizabeth Dare
• Percy cleaning out the stables and the whole scene at the ranch
• Percy learning how Athena’s children are born, and his hilarious reaction
• New lesson, class! Percy teaching the telkhines (?) a lesson and proving that he has a career as a teacher if all else fails
• Calypso. The island. That whole scene.
• Grover finding the great god Pan. That whole scene makes me tear up.

What I enjoyed in The Last Olympian:

• That first line haha (see pictures below)
• Demeter and Persephone bickering
• We get to learn more about Annabeth, Luke and Thalia’s past (plus we get to see Annabeth as a 7 year old with a hammer)
• Hermes cabin seriously are focused on one thing: looting a candy store. Really?
• Again, Travis, you can’t keep that really nice phone and NO LOOTING OR PILLAGING
• Tyson!!!! (I mean, he’s so proud of his big brother!)
• Paul Blofis’s sword fighting (and everything)
• Lesson learned: always look before you blast. And sit on a god’s throne if you want their attention. But again, only if they know to look before they blast.
• Pary ponies!!! (although I do see why Chiron might get a bit annoyed and overwhelmed by them)
• The best underwater kiss of all time