I am going to do a top 10 list of the best Percy Jackson moments in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series.

 

10. Battle of the Labyrinth

This battle was just so epic but also really depressing because everything just got too real and you realize these demigods are fighting for their lives (it was like that the rest of the book, but it got real in this one). In the first three books, it was building up to something big and   the something big was this.

 

 

 

9. When Percy gets turned into a hamster

A simultaneously hilarious and endearing scene. Rick Riordan just seamlessly weaves humor and character development in such a creative way.

 

 

8. First meeting Nico Di angelo

I like that Nico got to be a little kid before everything bad seemed to descend upon him, and then got worse…Nico has had to grow so much even though he’s so young. Looking at how far he’s come since the little kid who liked Mythomagic just gives me a good, and happy felling as well as a bad, and sad feeling. It is like growing up with him, suffering through all of his losses with him, but also on the rare occasion celebrating with him.

 

 

7. The fight with Polyphemus

I just thought this scene was so clever and I always love the scenes that Percy and Annabeth come up with elaborate plans to defeat the antagonist of this book.

 

 

 

6. Annabeth and the sirens

Annabeth is one of my favorite characters of this entire series and I think this was one of the defining moments of her. I really got to see her weaker behind her confident exterior, she is insecure about breaking apart her family, how much she wants her family back together and how much Luke meant to her as the person who took care of her in her darkest times. It’s  heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.

 

5. Annabeth finally getting to lead a quest

I remember excited I felt when Annabeth finally got a quest of her own, after kind of being in Percy, and everyone else’s shadows. I loved her mixed reaction to it, excited yet scared and nervous all at the same time and you see that Annabeth is one of the bravest characters in this series.

 

 

 

 

4.  Percy’s mom deciding to leave Gabe

Percy’s mom is probably my favorite fictional parent of all time. But my favorite moment of her’s has to be when she decides she has to live her own life. She knows she’ll always worry about Percy but that doesn’t mean she has to stop having her own dreams. Her sacrifice and courage will inspire me. And my favourite example of this is when she turned her abusive husband to stone using the head of medusa, and then selling him to a garden art collector.

 

3.  Percy, Annabeth, and Grover and the Medusa Incident 

I believe this was the first encounter they had with a monster where their reactions were hilarious, instead of terified. Percy and Annabeth just start bickering with each other while Grover is the mediator between them. I love the inclusion of all the Greek facts paralleled with the fictional aspects and it’s humor.

 

 

2. The Dam Snack Bar

The one moment of light through all the fights and frustrating gods. I think any Percy Jackson fan loves this part. It’s just a reference that anyone can find funny and that’s one of the best parts of this series, it is an ongoing joke between me and all my Percy Jackson fan girl friends. 

 

 

1. Percy and Annabeth’s underwater kiss

What a perfect ending to a near perfect series. And yeah, I’m a huge Percabeth shipper. I shipped them as friends and every since Aphrodite had the talk with Percy about love in “The Titan’s Curse”. They totally deserved this moment, and each other and I just thought it was one of the most unique first kiss scenarios ever. They’re so adorable.