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Introduction
Author – Rick Riordan
Book Name – Percy Jackson and The Sea of Monsters
Category – Fantasy, Fiction, and Mythology
Language – English
About the Author
His real name is Richard Russel Riordan Jr. and he was born 5th
of June 1964 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. He took Rick Riordan as his
pen name and he is known for his book series like Magnus Chase trilogy and a
pentalogy of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, that is about a teenager named
Percy Jackson discovers he is a son of the Greek god Poseidon and hence
making him a demigod.
About the Book
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second book in
the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series – written by Rick Riordan and published
in the year 2006. The story of this book is the continuation of the last book
which means it starts from where the Lightning Thief left. In the previous book, we saw our protagonist was fighting for the safety of his mother and friends in
Half-blood camp, in this book Percy, is fighting not just for his friends but
also for the safety of the whole world.
This time, Percy teams up with Annabeth, Clarissa, and Tyson
on a journey to Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece to save the mystical tree that protects the half-blood camp and also rescue his best
friend Grover from an evil cyclops.
At the beginning of the story, we see Percy was back to his
mother in New York and after returning home he went straight to Half-blood
camp. From here the story is fast-paced and the plot takes the story away from
New York and the half-blood camp. Percy and his friends spend days exploring
the Sea of Monsters, in their journey one can notice that Riordan has blended
Greek mythology with our modern life seamlessly and acceptably.
Lightning Thief had some great action and even greater plot
but Sea of Monsters blows it out. From the opening scene where Percy is having
nightmares about the destruction of the school gym in a game of dodgeball with
giant monsters and nightmares about a kidnapped drag Queen Satyr. After all, these incidences that happened, facing them gave a new direction to Percy and
he got amazing character development.
Percy Jackson is no longer that disabled type of guy we first
saw in The Lightning Thief, he is now filled with a lot more confidence and is
starting to understand the importance of his position and heritage. This book
worked a lot on the emotional relationship of its characters, Poseidon and Percy,
Percy and Annabeth as well.
The introduction of a new character to the team is also a good
choice to make the story interesting. Tyson, son of cyclops and half-brother to
Percy joined the camp and Percy in his journey. Grover got less time in this
story because of his kidnapping and that makes sense if a new character is
being introduced.
The further story overflows with suspense, adventure, and thrill
that must be enjoyed while reading the book itself and not just by a summary.
Review
This is the second book of the series the Percy Jackson and
the Olympians – written by Rick Riordan. The story for the book was already
decided because it’s a sequel to a previous book The Lightning Thief, Rick just
had to continue the story from where he left in the previous book. The
characters were already created and are well explained in the previous part but
here in this book characters are shown much mature and confident, they all got
some amazing and much-needed development.
The best part of the book is that the plot was completely
different, even the title of the book says itself about the story and the plot.
This book is set in a different place and not just in half blood camp, this
change of scenery helps the readers to stick to the book and to read it without
any break.
The mixture of intense description, danger, action, and comedy
as well is so précised that we can get an idea about the excellence of the writer
in story-telling. Rick Riordan has not only made these characters instant
classic that everyone appreciates but also narrated this masterpiece perfectly
which is worthy of its predecessor.
This book is a must for those who seek adventure, romance,
comedy, mystery altogether. The joy that originated while reading the
Lightning Thief will be in continuation while reading this book. I’ll highly
recommend everyone to read this book once and especially to those who have
already completed The Lightning Thief.
You can buy this book easily from Amazon: The Sea of Monsters
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