Rick Riordan is one of the best authors know of, he does a great job in the characterization in the series "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", he has so much detail in his writing that the readers (me) can feel exactly how he or she feels, anger, frustration, relief, frightened, and all the other emotions that build up the character.
Percy Jackson is the main character in this series, Rick Riordan does the best job discribing him as a character, first, he has a very interesting name, Perseus Jackson, named after Perseus, to supposingly inherit his luck (if you read the book, you'll understand why that's so important); Percy is a great person, even though he gets expelled all the time, that doesn't affect his personality, he is loyal to his friends, and all the people he cares about; even in situations that might cost him death he chooses his friends over himself, quote: "Tyson was gone forever, and wishing I were able to drown" it shows that he really cares about his friends.
There are many other good qualities about him, for example, he is very curious, and catches even the tiniest detail that most of us would ignore, the author shows that here in this sentence, "I thought about the dream of the girl and the golden sarcophagus. I wasn't sure what it meant, but I got the feeling I was missing , something. Something terrible that Kronos was planning." The dream wouldn't of meant that much to normal people, but, he payed more attention to it, and that, is what might save his life.
Annabeth, is another interesting character due to the clever writing of the author, Rick Riordan. he describes her very well and makes interesting connections with her and the other characters that make the book so much more fun to read! In these parts, he shows Annabeth's fatal flaw that we can really connect to. "My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.", "Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... event the gods", "She looked down`Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really
is messed up? What if we
could do it all over from scratch? No more war. nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework." Some people can really connect to that!