Jennifer’s Reviews > The Lightning Thief > Status Update

This wants very badly to be Harry Potter...a trio of two adolescent boys and an overachieving girl solving mysteries and going on quests, competing with magical boarding school-mates in sporting games, being super-special with abusive surrogate parents, etc, but with a good deal more casual murders committed by children, implied rape, and throwaway domestic abuse tossed in for good measure. It is not an improvement.