The Lightning Thief

This blog is about books in the Piedmont High School Library. Will it be a booktalk? Sometimes it will have elements of a booktalk. Is it a book review? It will have a touch of that, too.
The blog is about The Lightning Thief. It has a been a recipe for success in the PHS Library. It takes a cup full of characters who become well-known as the author uses the characters in a series. There are a total of five books in the series. The books are The Lightning Thief, The Sea Monsters, The Titans Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian.
There are several things that can make a series very appealing; what are they? Is it the fact that if you like one book, you think the next book will be similar? Or, is it the fact that you want the storyline to keep going? Or, is it the fact that it is easier to stick with a book series you know rather than trying something new?
The Lightning Thief has a cup full of characters but adds two more cups of ingredients, one of fantasy and one of Greek mythology making a great mix. According to my college-age source the Greek mythology in the storyline is pretty accurate.
The "icing on the cake" for The Lightning Thief is that a movie has been made about this book. This fact instantly draws potential reader's attention to the book. For those of you who read the book and went to see the movie, were the book and the movie similar or not? Hopefully, you read the book first.