Review: The Sea of Monsters – Percy Jackson & The Olympians

This is a spoiler free review… so read on and be merry.

Ahem, so… if you read my review of the first book, The Lightning Theif, you know that I only have gave it 3.5 stars… I really wanted to give it 5 because of the mad writing skilz Rick Riordan has, but I couldn’t because of the lack of character development… or smarts. Just wouldn’t be doing the public justice if I wasn’t honest.

Again, Mr. Riordan’s writing was excellent! He really can tell a good story, get you interested right away and really make you enjoy the adventure.

However, again I felt like he made Percy and his friends a little daft. They take everything for face value and never “fear” the situations they are getting into. Now, being that I have read the first book, I know, and they know, people are out to get them. Monsters from everywhere! So you would think, if they had brains in their heads, they would NOT waltz around and be like, I wonder why it smells funny in here.

Really? I mean Really? Soooo unbelievable in the character development. It’s so disappointing BUT it’s a good reminder for the rest of us to MAKE SURE our characters are believable.

A friend pointed out the fact that its very similar to Harry Potter… 3 friends, one with a prophecy, all trying to save their magical world. Hmmm, she was right. It is exactly a potter book, minus the magicians and add in the mythological of it all

NOW, I was going to have to give this book 2 stars… Because I felt like I could have done without about 200 of the pages… no really, his writing and all. I found myself reading the first sentence and nothing else of some paragraphs… BUT then came the end… great hook at the end! Raised it a full star for me… and makes me want to read Titan’s Curse.

Hoping for more stars in book three!