Something about the writing just didn’t quite click for me this time, it felt too much ‘then we did that, and then I did that, and then that happened’, although there were glimmers of the style I so loved in the novels I ultimately found this story rather lackluster. But, much as I love Clarisse, I really didn’t enjoy this one (and was appalled to discover that she wears double-denim!). The first story, Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot, dealt with Percy helping his camp-enemy, Clarisse, recover her father’s stolen chariot. Were they any good? Well… I have to say that, although I enjoyed The Sword of Hades, I found the other two rather lacking. The big thing for me was the short stories. Whatever though, I didn’t borrow the book for the gimmicky stuff but I’m not going to begrudge the publishes for including it if the younger audience enjoy it. I think the majority of new content (bar two of the short stories) was the interviews with named campers, which didn’t really appeal to me and the quiz’s and puzzles at the end. A lot of it, surprisingly, though was stuff I had already read, little extras like the ‘Who’s Who in Greek Mythology’ that I read in the back of my library copy of Sea of Monsters, Percy Jackson’s summer camp report that was in the back of another of the books. As expected, most of the content is pretty gimmicky, aimed firmly at the intended child audience for the books rather than geeks like me still reading kids books in their twenties.
They’re generally just a bit too kiddy and a bit too gimmicky for me, but I was interested to read the three short Percy Jackson stories Riordan had written so I picked a copy up from my library. Ok, so I’m not normally one for these sort of ‘added extras’ type of books. So, if you’re armed with this book, you’ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson’s most perilous adventures, a Spotter’s Duide to Monsters, a Who’s Who in Greek mythology, Percy’s Summer Camp report and much more. In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood’s senior scribe, gives an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see. If you’re reading this book, your life is about to get a lot more dangerous. Form: Compilation (short stories, quiz’s, and background information)
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