It's like a lot of the stuff in the book could have actually been a cool twist on things, if it'd been handled well. But the book read like it was aimed a few grades lower than the first Harry Potter book, and all those cool ideas were just sort of thrown out there as "Yeah, that's how it goes" and not explained. Maybe they would've been expanded on later; I didn't really care to read that much further.
In the book, Percy does come across as ADHD a bit, at least in the first few chapters. And genuinely scared by his abusive stepfather; I mean, the guy rolls him for his allowance first thing on walking through the door. So that part, I can call poor movie adaptation. (Making someone who's 12 in the book into a late teen actor was probably a bad call for selling a lot of the emotion/reaction as written, at that.) And while his mother seems to exist just to be Saintly and Abused, I still rather liked her; she knew things, and gave sensible instructions, even if she did stay with the abusive stepfather for no reason I could comprehend.
Until she got offed, of course. And the more I hear about the whole "Hades gets treated as an eeeeeevil person" thing, the more glad I am I didn't finish the book. The dude's got a job to do! There's nothing wrong with taking care of the underworld! Everyone goes there when they die! Sheesh.
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In the book, Percy does come across as ADHD a bit, at least in the first few chapters. And genuinely scared by his abusive stepfather; I mean, the guy rolls him for his allowance first thing on walking through the door. So that part, I can call poor movie adaptation. (Making someone who's 12 in the book into a late teen actor was probably a bad call for selling a lot of the emotion/reaction as written, at that.) And while his mother seems to exist just to be Saintly and Abused, I still rather liked her; she knew things, and gave sensible instructions, even if she did stay with the abusive stepfather for no reason I could comprehend.
Until she got offed, of course. And the more I hear about the whole "Hades gets treated as an eeeeeevil person" thing, the more glad I am I didn't finish the book. The dude's got a job to do! There's nothing wrong with taking care of the underworld! Everyone goes there when they die! Sheesh.