User blog:Annabeth and Percy/How we became apart of this.

First off, I would like thank Sayuri for allowing me to make this blog (even though she won't let me type it out in purple).

I wanted to make this blog for all of us to share our story on how we first started reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. How we discovered it, why we continued to read it, and all that.

Here's my story:

It's actually kind of embarrassing, if not, stupid, lol. But it's probably the best stupidest thing I have ever done.

I first read the series at the end of 2010, after The Lost Hero had come out, because the first book came out in 2005, so I was only 7, and I probably wouldn’t have understood most of the stuff in the book at that age.

My brother would go to the library that’s less than half a mile from our house and bring some books home to read.

One of the books that he brought home one time was The Lightning Thief in large print.

Here’s the stupid part.

I like to read books in large print. Not because I need to, I just like to read in large print because the pages aren’t as rough and the words are bigger.

So I went to the library website and placed a hold on the large print version of The Lightning Thief.

Best thing I’ve ever done.

I loved it. And after reading it, I watched the movie, whose previews I didn’t really pay much attention to when it was coming out until I had read the book a few months later. The movie was funnier than the book, but that is really the only thing I like about the movies.

Anyway, after watching it, I read the rest of the books. But it took me a few months to finish them, because I was doing something at that time, that I can’t remember what now.

I didn’t think much about Percy and Annabeth becoming a couple until after reading The Titan’s Curse, Percy’s meeting with Aphrodite, and I wanted that. I was wondering when they finally would get together. Annabeth kissed Percy in The Battle of the Labyrinth, which was great and my favorite part in the whole book. Then they finally settled their love triangle, technically love square, in The Last Olympian (technically settling itself by one of them dying, and the other practically taking herself out of the running permanently, leaving Percy and Annabeth free of that drama by default), and made their relationship official.

That was the best part in the whole book. And so was the underwater kiss.

When I first read The Lose Hero, I hated it. At first, when I got to the end of Jason’s first chapter and read that Percy was missing, I was like “I’m not really liking this so far, but what happened to Percy? I must read on and find out.” Lol. Well, I finished the book quickly, because, as I just said, I didn’t like it, and I didn’t read it again until after the Mark of Athena came out, because I grew more of a liking to Jason, Piper, and Leo, and that was about a year and a half later.

These books really made me like reading, so I made it one of my hobbies.

I haven’t been reading that much now, though, because I’m currently trying to work on my stories.

But anyway, sorry about the long post. I wasn’t around until 2013, and I wanted to give my opinion on some of the past books.

I would really like to hear your guys story on how you first got into the books: How did you hear about them? From a friend, or just happened to find it in a book store or library? What made you read it, and continue to do so, over and over again?

Please tell me in your comments below, and don’t be embarrassed.