The story starts near Long Island, New York, where the main character, Percy Jackson, learns that he is a demigod and gets sent to a Greek camp for half-bloods of Greek gods to learn and thrive.

Luckily for him, his mom had previously taught him all the Greek myths she could, training him for the day he had to go there.

In the first book, similarly to the show, Percy gets sent on a quest with Annabeth, a child of Athena and Grover, a satyr that’s first purpose was to protect Percy before he came to Camp Half-Blood. After a little while of traveling, they come across Ares, who makes them go to a theme park and go on the Thrill Ride o’ Love to find Aphrodite’s scarf.

In the show, however, they are sent to the theme park to retrieve Ares’ shield, where Percy sits on Hephaestus’s seat contraption and gets stuck, allowing Annabeth to grab the shield before working on a way to get Percy out. None of this happens in the book, but they both shine an educational yet still entertaining view on the fact that this is based off Greek myths and the gods.

The first book and show include the whole Greek Mythology aspect Rick Riordan intended like the creatures, history, gods and more. This gets carried into the second book and season of the show.

The second book and season show more of the gods like Hermes, also showing how he’s related to Luke, but Luke despises this. It shows how Hermes is often seen as the god of thieves, but he’s also the god of messengers and travelers, but people still seem to overlook that.

Hermes gives Percy a thermos with the winds trapped inside to help him with his travels, similar to the bag he gave Odysseus while escaping from Calypso’s island.

Even though they are meant for the same purpose, Percy Jackson fans at JHop are debating whether the show or books are better.

“The books are much better,” said sixth-grader Madeline Vincent. “They have much more humor and scenes that the show doesn’t have.”

The books are winning for the correct ages and the originality, said sixth-grader Sarah Cowart.

“They aged up the characters six years,” she said.

Sarah added that she likes the books better because “(the characters) are actually twelve years old.”

Even with this similarity between the show and books, the show seems to have left out Hermes’ two snakes, loved by fans: George and Martha.

“The best characters, George and Martha, are completely missing,” Madeline said.