I read like the US standard editions because the UK covers for Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm the titular newest Olympian. I'm a 30-year-old man who never read the

Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm reading them now for the first time as an adult to determine if this is a book series that we, as society, have been sleeping on. I'm not on this quest alone, though. I'm joined by a Welsh booktuber, a big old nerd and all-around wonderful human being that I'm excited to talk with about this series. It's Joel, Rochester. Joel, how's it going? Hello. I am really excited to be here. Like, everyone has been mentioning the newest Olympian. And when you invite me on here, I'm just like, yes, this is something that I have to do, especially as also someone who only read like Percy Jackson as an adult as well and they stay out on my childhood.

I definitely feel like we can relate in certain ways. I'm definitely like highly anticipating the

rest of your journey throughout the entirety of the Percy Jackson series. I'm very excited to have

you as well. It is a two directional thing here where I've had many people recommend you to be a

guest on the show.

So I'm glad that we could finally make this crossover happen. Also, a lot of people have

been asking for more international guests. So the more the merrier, it's fun to hear all the

different perspectives. If things are changed for the U.S. versus the UK, I'm assuming you didn't

read it in Welsh, the ridiculous language that it is.

No, no, no. I don't even think they were published in Welsh, which was surprising. But no, I think

I read like the US standard editions, because the UK covers for Percy Jackson are abysmal.

Oh, interesting. And it should be removed from existence.

We Google Percy Jackson UK covers?

They're really bad.

It gives very much like 2005, like, fantasy vibes, like, Beast Quest almost.

Okay.

Very much, like, this is like a teenage boy series, like, need to read.

So I feel very much with like the new adaptation. Fingers crossed,

we get brand new covers for this series in the UK, please. I feel like I've seen something about,

maybe it's not a UK thing, but I feel like I saw something about new covers coming out.

But hopefully that's a case, I am looking, and I've cropped it so that I can only see the first two.

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