Stephy Read Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related, for better or worse... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

About

Written by Rick Riordan and published in 2006, The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. 

Go read my ramblings about the first book in the series here.

Content/Trigger Warnings

Violence

Abusive Parent

 

Ummm... that's all I can think of. If anyone knows any that I missed let me know.

Characters

Most the characters from the first book come back for this one. And a new character is introduced! 

 Percy, Annabeth and Grover are back. Grover has a smaller but no less important role in this one. 

Clarisse is back with a bit of a bigger role. And she's less of a bitch... 

Ares is a dick. Just... yeah... dude is still an asshole.

 

Writing

Writing is fantastic. Again, simple without making the reader feel stupid. 

Plot

Thalia's Tree has been poisoned, and Percy is going to get to the bottom of it. Even though he's told not to leave camp. That is just a small detail. It'll be fine. 

And it is! Percy, Annabeth and their new friend, Tyson, are off to save Camp Half-Blood, and Grover. Because Percy has also been having weird dreams about Grover being in trouble. So they have to save him, too. Because no way is Percy leaving his BFF behind.

 Romance

Well, a cyclops thinks he's going to marry Grover but the relationship falls apart when the cyclops learns that Grover is a male satyr not a female cyclops. 

Other than that... no romance.

Overall Thoughts

 Writing reviews for these books is hard cause i really don't wanna spoil anything. I want everyone to read these books and be surprised by every twist and character introduction and all that shit. So while I wanna gush about the various characters from Greek mythology that show up, another part of me doesn't wanna say anything. Ugh. 

Anyway!

This book is a great follow up to The Lightning Thief. It starts with a game of deadly dodgeball and keeps the excitement going until the last page. Which, little bit of a cliffhanger. Because that's what Rick Riordan does...

Everyone should read this series. I said it before, and I'll keep saying it until I die. Not even joking, I will probably be on my death bed trying to convince someone to read these books.

 

 That's all for this one.