Kirstin's review of The Sea of Monsters
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan
I’d like to start out by saying that I really liked this book. That said, it’s got to be really, really hard to write the second book in a highly successful and inventive series. For the first book, there are no expectations, particularly if you’re a first-time author. No one knows your stuff. You can spend half the book setting the scene. But once you’ve done that in the first book, it’s hard to do that again in the second book. Instead, people already know all the places and the key players and want just to dive into the action. And really that’s an entirely different kind of book than the first one.
Rick Riordan does a fine job with his second book in his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He brings back the characters we love (and loathe) from the first book and sends them almost immediately out on a quest to save the place where they all feel most at home.
In addition to the great characters returning from the first book, add to that a couple of cyclops, a p...more
Rick Riordan does a fine job with his second book in his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He brings back the characters we love (and loathe) from the first book and sends them almost immediately out on a quest to save the place where they all feel most at home.
In addition to the great characters returning from the first book, add to that a couple of cyclops, a p...more
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