Percy Jackson and the Olympians Fansite

I have in my hands the Deluxe Edition of The Lightning Thief, just released a couple of weeks ago. First off, this is a definite upgrade from my previous dog-eared paperback edition of The Lightning Thief. It is a sleek, very nice way of packaging. It’s a hardcover book, which feels like any hardcover book without a dustcover.

Instead of using a dustcover, they put it into a nice slipcase with the artwork being Percy with his sword, the Minotaur horn and the Empire State Building in the distance. Everything else was cut off or shrunk to size.

The book and slipcase are a nice Navy blue color that looks pretty sweet. Additional upgrades are a ribbon bookmark, which is much handier for marking your spot than folding the corners or using a bookmark which is just annoying sometimes. It also has 8 full pages of new artwork from John Rocco, the illustrator for the PJO book covers which you can see below.

The paper is also different, instead of the sides being smooth, they made the side, (not the top and bottom) of the paper rough, so it makes it a little harder to turn the pages from the side. That is the only downfall of this book (and a very small one at that). The entire package is shrink-wrapped, so as to not let the book get scraped up. Well, unless you drop it before it’s opened. But hopefully that didn’t happen.

All in all, if you don’t own The Lightning Thief, or your old copy is trashed from reading it often (like mine) you should strongly consider buying it.

Amazon has it at a discount right now!