"I recoiled at the taste, because I was expecting apple juice. It wasn't that at all. It was chocolate-chip cookies. Liquid cookies. And not just any cookies—my mom's homemade blue chocolate-chip cookies, buttery and hot, with the chips still melting." Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan My son and I read this book last year. Sometimes, when an author starts out this exciting the follow up books are a bit of a let down. The characters aren't so new anymore and the plot…