Percy Jackson is a book for like... 12 year olds lol. I enjoyed them though when i read them years ago. if it was 3000 pages it was probably a special edition with all books in the first series. It's a good gateaway series to "real fantasy"
my gateway to fantasy was Warrior Cats and what a read that was too bad i didnt go back to it earlier before that it was ROAL DAHL (author Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Danny the Champion ) this takes ME BACK.. I don't regret not read Harry Potter.
Speaking of which, I recently had a chance to pay a book store away from my house a visit (never happens) and all I could find was Harry Potter which stood out coz of the stacks.
I ended up buying an old classic from Dickens "Tales of 2 Cities" and one piqued my interest.. Almost sounds like a mixture of Skamoto days and Spy X fam from the blurb called "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Cornard
The rest of the stuff there, i don't wanna generalise but, it was too pink for me 🗿any book i'd touch i'd be told its romance or just sexual.