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You should have told them how the saga should be called Totally Not Harry Potter. That would also make any PJ enthusiast rage.

To be honest, I don't hate the concept of the Percy Jackson films (I think its an interesting concept) but it really is the biggest HP rip-off of all time. Its not that its the same idea, but that they took Harry Potter and made "exactly the same story but every Wizard noun is replaced by a Greek mythology noun" version of the same thing.

Same goes for the books? Or did that include all forms of PJ?

Umm, I am a big fan of the books, and I don't quite see how similar they are to HP (other than the whole Camp Half-Blood and Hogwarts concept). What I meant is that the films are an abomination with a story that doesn't care about the books or mythology (Well yes, the books haven't got perfect mythology, but it's better than the films.)

The first book might even be worse, because its cover and art are decidedly HP-esque.

Percy/Harry is a normal child with an unhappy life who is plagued by strange things as he grows up. One day, its revealed he is a half-God/wizard, and he leaves the mortal/muggle world to be with others of his kind and learn his culture at a camp/school, where he finds that he is already famous amongst his kind.

The list goes on, but that's the general gist of the start of it.

@Leinfors (and everyone else): Yes, but using that argument, every heroic fantasy book with "normal person going on a quest to save the world" type of story is a copy of a previous book with that motif. What maters is the unique thing the book does with that story-structure.

No, I get that and . . . lets just say that as an avid reader, I find the similarities FAR more parallel than other such examples. I don't find that the book, at least not in the earlier stages, has a unique story structure at all.

I'm not hating on it too hard here though; I don't dislike the story, I just can't help but see the parallels.

Well, I can't criticize you for having an opinion.