Title: Percy
Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick
Riordan
Publisher:
Hyperion Books New York
Publish
date: 2006
ISBN: 13:
978 142310334-9
The
follow-up to the first in the series, Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief.
Another rip-roarer but somehow it feels like an ‘inbetweener’… which I suspect
it is. Nice portrayal of self-acceptance leading to acceptance of other in the relationship
between the MC and the new character of Tyson. In fact the character of Tyson is
altogether a good move, as it is sufficiently different to all the others to
create a multi-faceted foil quite effectively. I won’t bother with a synopsis:
something will inevitably be a spoiler and anyway it only takes a few hours to
read through this book, you might as well find out fresh for yourself.
As is,
perhaps, inevitable in a series, there is some back-explaining and story that
gets a little annoying, but it’s not too intrusive overall. Good thick, solid
brushstrokes and blistering pace, as per the previous book. It might be an
inbetweener, but hey, it does its job and guess what, I’ve already reserved the
next in the series at the library, so that must say something. Got it out for
the daughter but she’s ignored it – going to get the next one out for myself.
Stuff the kids.
4 out of 5
moose hoofs up, with the one deduction only because it has that awkward feel to
it.
