I really liked the actress who played Annabeth, but she’s blonde in the book.

He’s been in every book and considering the goal is to bring him back to life, seems like a big part of the story to leave out. Kronos though – I’m not sure how they are going to do that. But, so far he’s not mentioned much in the rest of the series (I just finished book 3). I really disliked that they left out Ares completely. I thought the camp was a little hokey though. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the book. I haven’t read any other reports on this online yet but I would think the internet has to be saturated with posts on the differences. The ending with Lucas – in the book Percy is bitten by a scorpion (that evil Luke’s doing!) but in the movie that’s not how it goes at all.Īnyway – I know there are tons more but those are top of my peeves right now. in the book I am not really sure what it was that drugged them. I loved the eating of the Lotus Cookie (was it a cookie?) and causing a drug like state that would not let them leave…. The Lotus Casino – the movie part of this was cooler than the book. After all, he is the god of war and turns out – he is also our bad guy. The god Ares plays a HUGE part in the book. In the movie they are part of the actual quest and they start out by going places to find them.ģ. In the book they get them towards the end of their quest. The little pearls that they need to stomp on to get out of Hade’s safely. In the movie it goes along with them and actually helps them in their quest.Ģ. Hellooooooo? In the book Percy ships it to the Olympians.

I am going to start a list here and feel free to add to as I know I can not possibly remember everything: (oh and in no particular order as I am just putting these in as I think of them…)ġ. After seeing the movie and then continuing on with the book I was amazed what they left out of the movie, or blatantly changed…. I have seen differences before between books and movies but nothing like this before. So – for starters I have to say – what the…? I was shocked at how different the book was from the movie. That being said – read on at your own risk.

Know that if you read any further you are going to see spoilers to the book and to the movie Lightning Thief.

Thief of Olympus by Elizabeth Rose