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The ratings are one reason why I thought I might try a few more and see if the books improve.
The logic being that I tend to think more highly of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone than it may be worth because of its association with what comes later*. So I'm wondering if this first Percy Jackson book gets marked-up by readers because there is better to come. I enjoyed it enough to find out. I'm thinking/hoping there must be better to come or those ratings would not have been sustained.
* The first two Harry Potter books are also rather too childish for my tastes, but I read them because they are part of the arc, and the arc - I think - is brilliantly executed. Almost every character you meet from the first page through to the last has their distinct place and reason-for-being within the 7-book arc, and none of them feels childish by the end. I will always be in awe of that achievement.
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