The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

by Rick Riordan

You’d think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

‘I am a monster.’ ‘Don’t say that.’ ‘It is okay. I will be a good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.’

‘We will win!’ He beamed. We are so going to lose, I thought to myself,

Two chariots down in the first six metres. I loved this sport.

I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut, which didn’t help his mood.

Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that’s not important.’ ‘It was probably important to her.’

My mom hoped I would inherit Perseus’s luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, I wasn’t really optimistic.

The last thing I remembered was sinking in a burning sea, knowing that Tyson was gone forever, and wishing I were able to drown.

‘Then why do the gods even let me live? It would be safer to kill me.’ ‘You’re right.’ ‘Thanks a lot.’

I wanted to scream at her that this wasn’t the time for taking supplements! She had to draw the sword!

If I could submerge her long enough, I could break the spell of the music. Of course, Annabeth wouldn’t be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

A large rock is not the kind of enemy you can fight with a magic sword.

‘Percy,’ Chiron said, his voice impossibly soft. ‘The titan Kronos is my father.’

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil titan lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for career day.

I wasn’t sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.