Percy Jackson's Greek Gods Paperback – Illustrated, February 23, 2016

Basically it handled adult topics in funny and mature ways.

This is an absolutely wonderful and riveting book. Written in the voice of Percy Jackson, many well known and more obscure Greek myths are related using the sarcastic humor of Percy. He adds his own obvious and often ridiculous contributions to the myths, such as having the Greek Gods using modern technology or eating junk food in addition to other activities related in the myths. These additions can easily be distinguished from the original mythology and add humor to often harsh stories. When the gods do horrible things like eat people, marrying their sisters, etc., Percy is grossed out and make comments about how nasty that is. This makes it a little easier for kids to handle that type of thing. Whenever Percy enhances the myths by giving his opinion about how something might have happened he clearly states that what he is saying is not actually stated in the mythology, and this often makes the retelling of stories that might not make sense in modern times easier for a juvenile reader to understand. I recommend this book as an excellent reference to Greek Mythology for both juveniles and adults who appreciate tales being told in a lively rather than dry style. Am really looking forward to reading Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, coming in Fall 2015.

This, is by far, the best book of Greek mythology that I have read. Rick Riordan makes Percy’s tone about all of these people, very kid friendly and humorous. I would DEFINITELY recommend to anybody who loves Greek mythology!

Rick Riordan, the author of the book Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, already was super successful with the other series, Lightning Thief as well as The Trials of Apollo and many more. Rick Riordan must have felt like there was a need to tell more about the Greek Gods since all of his stories have something to do with myths. I enjoyed this book a lot because it gave me more background information about the gods that I already knew. My favorite part of the book is when the author retells the story of Kronos and how he ruled the World. While he rules, he swallows all his kids. Because Kronos’ children also are god, we know they need to reappear. Eventually, Kronos vomits his children up,after too much to drink. The children of Kronos seem unharmed by the incident. While I was reading this book I have learned that I really like books that are about myths from ancient cultures especially the Greek and Roman myths. Sometimes, when I start reading the RIGHT book I immediately fall into it and cannot stop reading it. This is one of these books!.

Rating system:1 star = did not like2 star = it was okay3 star = liked it4 star = really liked it5 star = it was amazingFirst, and most obvious thing, I got this in hardcover, and it's huge. I'm talking almost full ruler tall, 9 inches wide, and over 300 pages. It's pretty unwieldy to hold, depending how you like to hold your books. I like to hold mine higher, so it's better for my neck, and I almost smacked myself in the face a few times while turning the pages. I'm sure this book could have been a 600 or so page regular sized hardcover just fine, but my guess is they didn't want to scale down the pictures. They aren't frequent, but there are full page pictures scattered throughout.Something I didn't understand the need for was, there were random funny quotes from the text positioned and blown up. Like, Percy would say something funny, and then a couple lines down, the same way you would insert a small image, that sentence would be placed there as if to repeat the joke. Like, "haha did you catch that funny part? Well, here it is again just in case."I can see it being effective for someone skimming the book in store to try to grab their attention, but to someone reading the book at home, it seemed unnecessary.Anyway, Percy Jackson is the narrator for the legends of the origins of the world, and the 12 primary Greek Gods. I think this is likely far more interesting than a school text book version, but maybe not as detailed. Percy puts his own spin on the tales, and makes them as family friendly as possible. He also inserts his own two cents every so often. I didn't get to learn any Greek mythology in school, but I've always been interested, so I thought this book was a neat way to learn more than just what the series has been tossing out. I look forward to reading the book about Greek heroes in the near future.

This book explains the Olympian Council along with Greek culture and mythology amazingly! It even talks about three gods that are not a part of the Olympian Council, which are Hestia, Hades, and Persephone. It explains the beginning of time, and how the titans took down Ouranos, and how the gods took down Kronos. It explains all of Zeus’ affairs and how each Greek god was born. It also includes certain mortals like Arachne and what happened them. I also like how it had Percy Jackson as the author, because that gave it a hint of humor and how he described his perspective of the Olympians. Thank you for writing this book Rick Riordan!!! 😁😁😁

The book was very funny and in character and told the Greek stories in a very interesting and light hearted way.

I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS BOOK. I love it so much, I had to buy it and sneak it from my parents, this was a while ago but I'm writing the review now. I read it and I loved it and I had to give it away so my parents wouldn't find out, but it's an awesome book.