Another school year has come and gone and for once Percy hasn't made any mistakes at his new New Agey school Merriweather, but he has made a friend. A tall not so bright homeless guy named Tyson. However, on his last day of school, cannibals attack during gym class when he doesn't have Riptide on him and he is saved by Tyson who throws their fiery balls right back at them and by Annabeth who sneaks into the school using her invisibility hat and stabs one with her sword. His mother warns him not to go back to camp that Chiron says it isn't safe, but Annabeth tells him that they must save the camp. When they arrive they find that the great tree has been poisoned and therefore the protections of the camp are going away and it is getting attacked by monsters a lot. Because of this, someone had to take the fall and though Annabeth and Percy know Luke did it Mr. D fires Chiron and hires Tantalas from Hades to fill in as Activities Director, though his inability to eat or drink isn't fixed like Mr. D promised him it would be.
Poisssdon lays claim to Tyson as he is the father of all Cyclops, which is what Tyson is. Percy is ashamed to have Tyson as a brother and doesn't try to claim him. Though, when he and Annabeth get in a fight and decide not to race together in the chariot races he chooses Tyson as his wingman. Tyson is incredibly skilled at creating a chariot, as all Cyclops is good at working in forges. But when killer birds attack the camp, everyone, on the track except Clarisse goes to help those in the stands leaving Cliarrisse to win according to Tantalus.
Meanwhile, Percy has been getting dreams from Grover who is stuck on an island with a monster and is sewing something on a loom that he keeps undoing the stitches off and resewing every morning. He's at the Sea of Monsters and he needs help. This monster has been luring satyr's with the Golden Fleece's smell to let them think its Pan and then eating them. Right now he thinks Grover is not a satyr but a female monster and wants to marry him. Percy and Grover share an emotional link and if the link is severed by Grover dying Percy will die too. Annabeth wants to go after the Fleece because it is just the thing to fix the tree. But Tantalus has determined that this is to be Clarisse's Quest and that she must take two people with her and seek the Oracle's advice.
Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson sneak out on their own in search of Grover and the Fleece but they will in for some hard times and rough seas. I am happy to report that unlike the last book where Annabeth did very little, she does so much in this book. So does Clarisse, even if it's not always right. There is one heck of a surprise at the very end. My only complaint is that between the last book and this book we have now officially covered The Odyssey. Couldn't Riordan have come up with something original? I mean The Odyssey is not that long and it's easy to read and short the kids could handle it. I read it at age eleven. Wouldn't it be cool to get them interested in reading The Odyssey instead of spoonfeeding it to them? Don't get my wrong, its a great book and I really liked it I just want to see his ideas like I did in the first book. Also, the length is rather short. It's a good hundred pages off of the first book. Maybe I will in the next book of the series. I give this book a four out of five stars.
Quotes
“Annabeth,’ I said, “what are you talking about? Laistry-what?” “Laistrygonians. The monsters in the gym. They’re a race of giant cannibals who live in the far north. Odysseus ran into them once, but I’ve never seen themn as far south as New York before.” “Laistgry—I can’t even say that. What would you call them in English?” She thought about if for a moment. “Canandians.” She decided.-Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Two: The Sea Monsters p 26)“So what’s the moral?” “The moral?” Hermes asked. “Goodness, you act like it’s a fable. It’s a true story. Does truth have a moral?”-Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olypians Book Two: The Sea Monsters p 102)“But how did you know where we were?” Annabeth asked. “Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.”-Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Two: The Sea Monsters p 248)
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