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The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

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kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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draven_deathcrush's review

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I'm glad that I'm actually reading this series now!

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ashylibrarian's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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sophie42's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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nellienelson's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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sadie_g's review

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adventurous funny inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I wanted to read this series as I have seen it everywhere and I'm slightly disappointed in myself for not picking this up when I was much younger. However, as a 23-year-old reading Percy Jackson for the first time, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This book still follows Percy Jackson and after a year spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend named Tyson, who is a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any “normal” friends. But things don’t stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders that protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters – these are dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for Millenia, only today the Sea of Monsters goes by a different name these days – The Bermuda Triangle. Percy and his friends must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family – one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon’s son is an honour or a cruel joke.

I enjoyed this book. I think it’s better than the first one, but I did miss my sidekick, Grover. I wanted him and Percy to be having bants and going on adventures together and obviously with Grover being kidnapped, he wasn’t in the first 70% of the book. I love how the world is getting built with the action like you don’t feel behind and you know what’s going on, but the way Rick Riordan has a way of describing things in such a youthful, yet descriptive way is amazing. I enjoyed the storyline and how Percy is growing and how he already is very protective of his friends.

The cliff hanger though!! It makes me want to grab the third book and finish this series just to found out what is going to happen.

P.S if anything happens to Tyson or Grover again, imma go to war.

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nevermoregothic's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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johannarose's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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rinku's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The Sea of Monsters was for me a bit less enjoyable than the previous novel of the Percy Jackson series, mainly because it had quite a lot story elements I wasn’t too fond of. Like I’ve mentioned before, I probably would’ve loved this series if I read it as child but I have the feeling that I’m a bit too old now.

There are two main conflicts this time at Camp Half Blood: Someone poisoned Thalia’s tree, leading to the slow decline of the protection for the demigods. To stop this, Clarisse (lol) is send on a mission to find the Golden Fleece but Percy, his newly found half-brother Tyson, and Annabeth try to find it as well, mainly because Grover is gone and his disappearance is connected to the Fleece. Honestly, this whole plot around

the cyclops mistaking Grover for a female cyclops and wanting to marry him

was just a bit weird and too silly for me. Then, there are other story elements I rarely ever like, like cyclops and giants or a story mainly taking place on the sea.

At least, the pace was again quite fast, even though it was annoying that our main characters fall in one trap after another. What I also didn’t like about the ending was that

characters don’t really die (edit: this changes soon lmao) but are only apparently dead and even then, Percy barely has an emotional reaction. This time, this was the case with Tyson and later Thalia

. Other things I noticed about the story this time were that some plot points really reminded me of HP, like the wild taxi drive at the beginning, or the general plot point that the antagonists try to resurrect the big villain. It also annoyed me that some of the conflicts in the novel were caused my miscommunication because characters are so often interrupted when having important conversations. What I in contrast really enjoyed was the way this novel talks about social issues, like homelessness in reference to Tyson’s character.

Like I’ve said in my review of The Lighting Thief, the characters are definitely carrying the series for me. Percy has a great character development; at the beginning, he’s so terribly mean to Tyson which made me so mad, but later, he realizes his mistakes and even

helps Clarisse

, showing how much he’s grown as a person. Talking about Tyson, he had a bit of a Forrest Gump vibe to him which I didn’t like so much since it reminded me of the cliché depiction of people with disabilities. Furthermore, Luke is quite the cliché villain.

All in all, The Sea of Monsters extends the world of Percy Jackson and further develops its characters, but the rest in this novel was sadly not enough for me to give more than three stars.

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