Rick Riordan is what I could classify as one of the best young adult authors of this generation. He uses Greek and Roman mythology to educate and to create the most creative and interesting stories I have read since Lemony Snicket.

Riordan does a marvelous job of creating a story based on one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world: the disappearance of the Athena Parthenos statue from the Parthenon in Greece. As a student of the Classics and a Latin scholar, I was thrilled to see him create an entire plot around the demigods finding this long lost statue and returning it to Athena. I was giddy as a fat boy with cake!

I am in love with Riordan's writing style and his humorous way of dealing with the Greek and Roman pantheons, including all the "deadly" monsters the kids have to deal with on a regular basis.

The only flaw I've seen thus far in all the books Riordan has written about Percy Jackson and his crew is that fact that sometimes I feel these kids are defined too much by who their godly parent is. They continuously refer to each other or themselves as the "child of insert god's name here", and I feel they aren't given the opportunity to create or have their own identities away from their parents.

Still, that was only a minor thing I've picked up from reading all of his books. Riordan continues to deliver the most amazing set of stories that keep you interested from the beginning to end.