User blog comment:Annabeth and Percy/How we became apart of this./@comment-4846889-20150428202845

Back in 2010, my mum had seen the adverts for the film coming out so, when we were in the bookshop looking for some books to read over the summer holidays, she told me that I should read them. I was incredibly hesitant, even refusing to let her take it off the shelf (I can't remember why now), and in the end my mum persuaded me to give them a try and that she could always take them back if I didn't like them. They were on sale in the bookshop so she bought all of the ones there (the first four, the last Olympian having not been released in the UK at that point). As soon as I started reading the first book, I was hooked. I binge read the series and refused to watch the film on its release (due to spoiling my views of the characters, Ect.), and as soon as the last Olympian came out I read that. After finishing the series, I was distraught that there were no more. It did cause me to research more deeply into mythology and become a living encyclopaedia. A few years later, I reread the series and looked up on the internet for Rick Riordan's website to try and find if he had written any other books, and it was then I discovered HoO and, seeing that The Lost Hero had been released the year before, in my absence between rereading the books. I read it, initially hating the characters, especially Jason with his 'Mary Sue'ness and the fact that he was there in place of Percy. On the release of the Son of Neptune, my trust was restored in uncle Rick, inspiring me to start writing, initially a (awful, just awful) Fanfiction story that I never finished (thankfully). This is actually what brought me to Wikia as well.