Monday 8 September 2014

Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters by Rick Riordan

Book cover (version I own)
Hello avid readers of the internet!  Becky here with another review and this week I am reviewing... Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters by Rick Riordan.

the summary of the storyline: Its percy's second year in Half blood camp, Luke is still alive and plotting his revenge on Olympus... But Percy has bigger problems the border protecting the camp is dying! Percy and his friends MUST find a way to save his home... or they are all in peril!  

Characters
Chiron- Camp half bloods director of games
Mr D- Moody director of camp also the god of wine
Taranus- Replaces Chiron in this book only and is the dude that
Tyson (fanart)
can't eat or drink
Annabeth chase- Percy and Grover's best friend and daughter of Athena
Percy Jackson- Best friends with Grover and Annabeth and is Tyson's half brother son of Poseidon
Grover Underwood- Saytr and best friends  with Annabeth and Percy
Clarrise la Rue- camp bully and daughter of Ares
Tyson- Percy's half brother and a Cyclops
Luke Castellan- Son of Hermes and is trying to seek revenge on Olympus

HERMES
Now I liked the book as it started straight away with a mystery, and gets straight into a bit of twist as see Percy have a dream about Grover ; Which shows us that Grover is in trouble so you end up worrying about Grover, why he's in trouble and wether he's going to die... This then also makes you want to keep reading on till you find out WHERE GROVER IS!!!

also as you continue through the book you'll find the actual plot (see the summary) and it's actually really exciting as it lands you into danger straight away... two GIGANTIC  bronze bulls worth of trouble to be honest and it's just exhilarating to read as its just amazing to hear the demigods take on these magnificent creatures, also its actually a really cool storyline as you don't often see the bermuda triangle as a location within a book and also see cyclopses be the good guys, So it's nice to see yet another twist on mythology and fairytales.

I also like the way Riordans' characters have horrible past's (or future) which adds a good amount of backstory which also shows some awesome character development (Grover) and gives a good amount of character history making them really interesting.

Just one thing gets on my nerves... the fact that Percy is always trying to find a school or is often getting in trouble I know thats the main thing about demigods their scent attracts monsters.. But you know if he cant even survive a day in school without being killed then wouldn't it be better to home-school Percy?  or couldn't it be set as soon as he gets to Half blood camp?

 

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