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Might as well start with the setI bought the 3-book set because the first two books in the series were being passed around by my students so much, they were getting pretty dog-eared--and (verbal) fights were breaking out about who got what book next. (These are high school kids.) As a teacher whose heart goes out to learning-challenged kids, I have to appreciate the fact that Percy Jackson, the protagonist, has ADHD and dyslexia--issues that only enhance his heroics, not detract from them. The books are easy and engrossing, with plenty of sword brandishing and sarcasm, so they keep teens reading. There are, of course, mini lessons on Greek mythology throughout the books (often as the ever-valiant heroes are being attached once again by another fury or hydra or what-have-you), so I appreciate that, too.
I stop just short of a five-star rating here as I have read as far as Book Four and I would have liked to see Riordan be a bit more creative with his plot devices. The fourth book opens with Percy beginning school at yet another new school and this time it's the cheerleaders who are not what they seem to be, but that's only slightly different from how the other books open. Some situations have been used so repeatedly that I've begun to predict how our heroes will be backed into a corner with no way out this time--and who will save them.
Overall, though, I think this is a great series for young folks.
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Great research, believable characters, but somewhat predictable and lacking a last chapterI agree with some of the other reviewers. Great research and insight into Asperger's - we all know a "Jacob" these days and she really nailed it. Picoult always has excellent insight into the impact on families, especially teenage siblings - although it seems like she's told this story before of the ignored/overlooked/resentful sib acting out without the parent noticing. We get it - sibs of kids with special needs, medical fragility, etc., often have a hard time and sometimes you just want to reach into her stories and shake the parents for not getting it. I'd like to see her branch out a bit beyond this story line. I do think the twist wasn't really one - you could definitely tell what was happening - but what really surprised me was that the book ended - plop - with no resolution. I thought she definitely needed an epilogue. Do we really think that Theo and Jacob would go out of this happily ever after just by taking a ride to the court to confess all? This is hard to believe when Theo was breaking into houses and witnessed a death without telling anyone (and is it believable he kept this secret and watched his brother go on trial etc. without speaking up?)? DO we think that mom and her new laywer boyfriend were going to last on the basis of sharing blue food? Seriously, I think she needed an epilogue. My personal bet would be that the family would have packed up and left town and started over somewhere else. No way could either boy have returned to the community with what went on. Picoult is so meticulous in her storytelling, it seems strange to me that she didn't finish this off with an epilogue.
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