Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2: The Sea of Monsters
I never posted about Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1: The Lightning Thief and that is a shame, because it was a good book. I was in Borders one day because I decided that I needed a book and I had no clue what to get. I saw The Lightning Thief and thought to myself that it looked good (the cover that is) and I bought it. It was months before I picked it up and read it and that was because a friend said a friend of theirs couldn’t get into it. I got into it, way deep into it, and when I finished it I had to run out and get the next one Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2: The Sea of Monsters.
What drew me into these books was my love for Greek Mythology. It was one of my favorite subjects in school, although it wasn’t something the teachers in middle or high school dwelled on for long. Although in college I did have the chance to spend a semester listening to lectures from someone who was very well versed in Greek Mythology. In the semesters following the after I took her class, it was near impossible to get into one of her classes. Of all the Greek Mythology I know I learned the majority of it from Monica Cyrino at the University of New Mexico. Reading these two books took me back to the stories I learned in Monica’s course.
The Sea of Monsters put me within killing range of Polyphemus the cyclops, within hearing range of the Sirens, close enough to charybdis that I was going to get sucked in along with all the water around me and spit back out again, too close to Scylla, within fighting range of the Hydra. I was reminded of what Odysseus and Jason and Hercules had to do when they were battling these same monsters that Percy and his friends had to battle.
It was just an excellent adventure and I couldn’t get to the bookstore fast enough to get the third book Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3: The Titan’s Curse.
