Book Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (PJ#2)
Author: Rick Riordan(http://www.rickriordan.com/)
Pages: 279
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Genre: Young Adult/Science Fiction/Fantasy
(Scale Explanation: 1) Meaning awful, 5) Meaning not good, but not bad, equal, 10) Meaning wonderful)
PLOT - 9
CHARACTERS - 9
BEGINNING - 8
ENDING - 8
FLOW - 9
OVERALL - 9
What I liked about this book:
The continued story of Percy Jackson, it was great. It was a little short, but Rick Riordan managed to fit everything that would entail an outrageous adventure into less pages than the first. Great book, a fun quick read.
What I disliked about this book:
Nothing really, just that the ending was definitely a cliff hanger, but that is what makes books fun, right? :)
Who I would recommend this book to:
Anyone that likes the Percy Jackson series. Anyone that likes Young Adult, mixed with some really out there fantasy, science fiction, and mythology.
What I felt the book was about:
Percy Jackson goes back to camp only to realize that he must leave again on another quest to save Grover! Grover is in trouble and has created an empathy link with Percy. Also, the camps magical borders are failing, someone has poisoned the tree that keeps the camp safe. Only the Golden Fleece can save the camp. Percy goes to save Grover and has Tyson, his half brother along with him, Tyson is a cyclops. Annabeth joins the two and they brave many new monsters, and a trip through the sea of monsters where they encounter sirens, hippocampi, the PRincess Andromeda, Luke's new ship, and an island where the men are turned into guinea pigs and the women are pampered. Percy gets Blackbeard's ship and sails to the island where the ultimate cyclops lives and is keeping Grover captive. It is on this island that the Golden Fleece resides. There is a battle of immense proportions when it comes to getting the Fleece off the island and they make it back to Florida safely. Only Luke is waiting for them there. Clarisse takes the Fleece and heads back to camp aboard an airplane and Percy, Grover and Annabeth are left to battle Luke. Chiron suprises them and shows up with his crazy Centaur family and they get away safely. They race back to camp where Clarisse balances the Fleece onto the tree. Only the Fleece works too well and lying on the ground next to the tree the next morning, is Thalia, Zeus's daughter whom had turned her into the tree in the first place.
Favorite excerpts or quotes from the book:
“We only came close to dying six or seven times, which i thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like."
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