Endymion Spring By Matthew Skelton

This is my first post of a book I have only started, but so far, it's awesome! Endymion Spring is the double story of a mute boy who works as a printer's apprentice and an American boy whose mother was an Oxford student, and goes back to do work sometimes.

The mute printer's apprentice is Endymion Spring. They say that right in the beginning, so I'm actually not spoilling it. Endymion's teacher is Herr Gutenberg, who has figured out how to print multiple copies easily with ink and letter squares.

One night, a strange man comes and visits Gutenberg. His name is Johann Faust, and he has brought a strange, demon-covered box with him- and a deal. He will supply Gutenberg with enough cash to print many books, including Bibles, with the printing press, for a share in the profits. That agreement brings Endymion Spring into a long journey, including opening things that can only open by the taste of blood, stories of magic, child-eating books, a tree that was once inhabited by a dragon of all knowledge, and paper that lives! But that is only one half of the book...

The American boy is Blake, just a normal, average kid. His parents just were in a fight that is reffered to as the Big Argument by Blake and his little sister, Duck (the backstory of how Duck got her name is pretty interesting!). Because of the fight, or at least I think because of the fight, Blake, his mom and Duck all went to Oxford so their mom could study for one of her reports and meet with the Ex-Libris Society, an old group she was in.

When exploring the Library one day, Blake felt one of the books prick his finger. He took it out, and can you guess what the cover said? Endymion Spring (OMG!). The pages of the book, quivered, as if alive (that should sound familiar... hhmm... are these stories connected, by any chance?) and words started to write themselves in the book, words only Blake can read... this book plunges him into riddles, mysteries, old legends, the Ex-Libris Society and even a battle with the Person In Shadow, a mysterous and annonymous member of the Society who wishes to find the forbidden book of knowledge that is Endymion Spring... (I think I'll just stop there, because I don't know the rest! I still haven't finnished it!)

Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan

I'm shocked at myself. I almost forgot to review this book, the best Greek Mythology book I've every read, and one of the best books I've read total! In this, Greek myths are real. Yep. All that Achilles, Cyclops, Minotaur, Medusa stuff. Also, sometimes the Greek gods have children-with mortals. Those children are Half-bloods, or Demigods, which the main characters of this series are.

12-year-old Percy Jackson makes such a discovery that launches him

'on the most dangerous quest of his life'. First, he was sent to a special camp for Demigods, since he had found out part of his heritage (that he was related to the Gods, not which God. No, I'm not going to spoil it for you!). Then, Percy was accused of stealing Zeus' personal weapon of mass destruction- his Master Lightning Bolt. With the help from a satyr (half goat, half boy) named Grover and a daughter of Athena, Annabeth, Percy has to find the thief who stole Zeus' Bolt before the Winter Solstice- which gives him very little time (about 10 days). Encountering many different monsters from Greek Mythology (and you thought they were fake...) and even Ares (god of war), Posiedon (god of the sea/water) and Aphrodite (godess of love and beauty), Percy's life will never be the same... Okay, that's used way too often, and that should be obvious, he just found out that Greek myths are real, he's related to a Greek god and is a Demigod?! That's a lot of change for crying out loud!
Anyway, filled with excitement, mystery and awesome prophecies (sort of like warriors), I love this series (yes, it's a series)!

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_thief (wikipedia thing; WARNING:SPOILERS!)
http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/ (official site)