**edited 12/12/13 
 Zero to hero... 
 What would you get if Harry Potter and that Disney animated Hercules movie had a lovechild? 
 Percy Jackson, that's what. 
 + = 
 There's apparently a movie, just to complete the cycle. 
 The start of our story is a familiar one: Percy Jackson is a troubled tween with a tendency to cause peculiar things to happen around him. He's never known his father--his mother tells him he vanished on a long sea voyage, and she remarried an obnoxious lout that Percy detests. When he returns home after being expelled from his fifth or sixth school, Percy discovers that the weirdness isn't in his imagination: as one might guess from the title, the Greek gods are all too real, and the not-so-mythical monsters are showing far too much interest in poor Percy. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
 The rest of my (rather verbose and quote-filled) review is posted over here at Booklikes. 
 Why? Because I disapprove of GoodReads' new policy of censorship, I am no longer posting full reviews here.