the sea of monsters

 Welcome to my second book review, today I will be summarizing and giving my opinion on the second book of the Percy Jackson series: the sea of monsters.

summary:

The sea of monsters opens on Percy’s last day of 7^th grade, the day he's supposed to go back to camp. At school, Percy spends the day defending his friend Tyson from school bullies. During gym class, a group of unfamiliar bullies transforms into Laistrygonian giants. Percy, Tyson, and Annabeth defeat the monsters but leave to school in flames. They flee school and head to camp together.

At camp, the three find a group of warriors holding off an attack. Percy and Annabeth help defeat the monsters and learn Thalia’s tree, which protects camp, has been poisoned. Over the next few days, more monsters attack, and Percy keeps having disturbing dreams about Grover.

Grover is on an island in the sea of monsters being held captive by the cyclops Polyphemus, who has the Golden Fleece—the only magic strong enough to reverse the poison affecting Thalia’s tree. Percy and Annabeth ask the camp director if he can give them a quest to save Grover. Instead of giving the quest to them, he gives it to Percy’s enemy Clarisse. Feeling like they must do something, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson sneak away from camp and set out to find Grover and the Fleece.

On their journey, the group encounters Luke Castellan, a camper who went rogue at the end of the lightning thief and learns he poisoned the tree on the orders of Kronos (titan father of the gods). Running from Luke, Percy and his friends join forces with Clarisse and enter the Sea of Monsters.

The Sea of Monsters presents challenges, both physical and emotional. After an encounter with the sea’s guardians, the group is separated, and it appears Tyson didn’t survive. A grief-stricken Percy and Annabeth barely escape from one threat after another until they finally reach Polyphemus’s Island, where they find Clarisse, Grover, and Tyson alive. Polyphemus injures Annabeth, but the group manages to escape alive and with the Fleece.

They arrive back at camp just in time to save the tree. The Golden Fleece revives camp and leeches the poison from the land. Amidst border patrol and a chariot race, Percy enjoys his summer. Tyson leaves to spend time in the cyclops forges. The following night, a panicked Grover wakes Percy. They run out to the tree, where a girl lays unconscious beneath its branches. The girl is Thalia—the Fleece expelled her from the tree, and she is alive once again.

my opinion: 

the sea of monsters has a total of  279 pages and 20 chapters, they were all pretty enjoyable. to be honest when I read this book for the first time I cried. I got very attached to Tyson and when everyone thought he was dead, oh my gosh! I was so relieved when they found him. this book had a lot of different parts my favorite part was when they were at the monster donut shop or when they escaped Polyphemus. this book was better than the lightning thief because it didn't take so long to get to the interesting part. I love how Percy and Tyson connected as soon as they met, they have a really cute relationship that shows more in the later books. Like the last book, yes I would recommend it but only if you are planning on reading the rest of the series.