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Do You Know a Place Called Half Blood?

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I've always been a Greek mythology fan, so when I went to the movies to see the not-so good book to movie adaptation of The Lightning Thief (First book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians saga) I got hooked to this story and wanted to know more about it, eventually I bought the book and got fascinated by it. " Look. I didn't want to be a Half-Blood... If you're a normal kid and you're reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe none of this ever happened " This are some of the very first words you read at the beginning of the book, and I appreciate that the author takes time to make us believe this was real. I think it's part of creating the world and the magic, of wrapping you around the story. Obviously, this book is for kids so the author is  just trying to make us think this world really exists. Because this is a book for kids it has more innocent jokes but they're so funny, I ca...