A Modern Version of Greek Mythology

For the last month and a half, I have completed the Percy Jackson series and have really enjoyed them. At first, I was hesitant to begin reading the series since I wanted to read a whole array of books but after reading The Lost Hero and The Son of Neptune (both of which form part of a series which continues the Percy Jackson series) I felt obliged to read this series in order to further my understanding of the Heroes of Olympus series. In the end, I could not put the books down and even ended up prioritizing my reading to doing my homework (which I regretted later…) because they were just that good. The Percy Jackson series are about a boy named Percy who happens to be the son of the Greek God Poseidon. During the series he has five adventures (one per book) and (Spoiler’s Alert!) in the end manages to defeat the Titan King Kronos. Percy explores places such as Calypso’s Island and traveled a lot in the book The Sea of Monsters (which in my opinion is a modern retelling of The Odyssey) as well as roughly escaped places such as the Labyrinth.  I really liked how everything in the books is a modernized version of a Greek myth because I managed to subconsciously learn more about their beliefs and about the Gods through them. In fact, I even began to imagine which God or Goddess I am most related to and place myself into the books as I read. I think that it would be fun to be a Huntress of Artemis or be the daughter of Athena or something similar. I have always enjoyed Greek mythology and to have it placed in modern time was really fascinating for me.