Gerardo Gamiochipi

Ms. Lesley Johnson

English 9 (7 period)

November 27, 2013

The sea of monsters: Book Review

            Percy, a normal kid at simple sight. But is he actually normal or is he just pretending to be one. Well who is normal in this world? But I have to say that Percy is not a boy you meet in an everyday life because well his father is Poseidon. Yes you hear Percy Jackson is a semi-god (half human half god). But this is book number two so you sort of know the intro of the story, so why wasting time. Lets get into some action.

            Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon with her friend Annabeth the daughter of Athena, Grover a saphyr and Tyson a Cyclopes. Are on an adventure to revive the death tree that protects the bad things happening on the camp. But there is something they didn’t count on, going into the sea of monsters! Another way to say it is going into the Bermuda triangles. The 4 adventurers have to cross all the sea to finally get to the sea. There they see Luke, the leader of the rebellion! Luke is the enemy of Percy Jackson. (If you want to more about him go and check book number one) Luke the son of Hermes vs Percy the son of Poseidon and interesting fight. Sadly Luke have a dump scorpion rat and capture our adventurers. The blanket, the blanket the Gods created to revive a living thing. Well Luke wanted to steal the blanket to revive the one and only Kronos! The father of Ades, Poseidon and Zeus! Kronos have raise from the death and he destroy everything that was in his path. But as you will imagine Percy stab him and kill Kronos. Our heroes where returning home and place the blanket on the tree. But leaves weren’t just moving, something else was moving, something human was moving. Some fingers where moving.

            I really recommend this book to the young people out there. And believe me for me to like a book it’s hard. I want to be that kind of people that reads the book first and then see the movie, not the other way around. And this book has change my way of not judging a book by its cover but by its content. One part I read it because I want to read the entire sequel but this are independent books. If you didn’t read book number one you can still understand book number two. The content and the general of idea of this book is great and original. I mean who doesn’t like to read about Greek gods! Well maybe that’s boring, but that’s why. This book is not boring and I sort of study the Greek Gods with a little of out of context but at least I know some Gods. Another thing that I like a lot was that in the book they where many dialogues between characters and that made the book more understandable.

            What Rick Riordan (the author) does is amazing. You live the story, you feel the story and the most important is you experience the story as one protagonist. This author is very goo at his job because in this sort of books where there is fight involve he doesn’t say “Ka! Pow! Boom! Run you are going to get kil..” He doesn’t do that he describes the plot and the scene that you feel part of it. One example is:

“No!” I yelled

The ball caught Tyson square in the chest.

Also even though some vocabulary was hard he explain it not by saying the definition but by explain it inactions or in a character explanation. For example if you didn’t understand what was the Tree keeper, Annabeth would explain what the Tree Keeper is because he doesn’t know either.  This made also a very strong connection between you and the character.

            Closing up, I do recommend this book to those teens that are bored or just want to read for fun, and if you read the entire sequel, you are going to live the book. You and the book will be one. Because this Rick is a unique and creative author.

           

 

Where could the story go after the book ends? The story will end where the author tell us. When the tree had the blanket the daughter of zeus revive. So the story will continue next summer as Percy will interact with Thalia (the daughter of Zeus). What is the future of these characters' lives? Normal, well sort of. They will live their normal lives until the next summer where they will see the living tree. 

I actually like it a lot. I like it because its the point of view of Percy and the experiences he is into it is told by him. This give more action and more detailed things. And I like books that are very detailed. The only thing that I will change but if it doesn't change its great its including more 

The title "Sea of Monsters" relates because a lot of monsters have appear during the book. They have appear a Cyclopes minotaur and the three sisters. This book also relates because it is about greek mythology. We have discover the part of monsters, but the part of sea we haven't discover why.

Chapter four was about the half blood camp getting attack! It was attack by 2 bronze horn bulls, breathers of fire. In this chapter we meet a new character call Clarisse, daughter of Ares the God of War. They protect the camp and kill the Bulls. It was strange that monsters pass to the camp because there is a magic wall that prevents that. They discover that the wall was being "poison". 

Percy is talking! The narrator of this book is the one and only, Mr. Jackson. He is narrating the stories and actions he has live or see. I now that because on the narrator part the author uses "I". "I run away and grab Tyson with me" That is Percy Jackson. Its some type of "journal" but exactly one.

The first action scene that happen on the book was a attack to the gym! Monsters come from the other world in search of demigods or halfblooded (Part human part god). In this case Percy was never attack in that year, but the last day of school is always the exciting one. So they are playing dodgeball and suddenly some kids convert into this monsters call "Laestrygonians" they are like really big monsters. They where trowing cannon balls to Percy, but Tyson protect. But suddenly Annabeth  came to save them! They destroy the monsters and the gym. After the "crime" scene the 3 had to run away from the cops.

At the beginning of the book they present us 5 characters: The principle charter, Percy son of poseidon; his mother; Annabeth daughter of Athena; Grover a centaur and Tyson percy's friend.

Each of them has a special role (except the mother) Percy has the power water, Annabeth has the power of wisdom, Grover is the protector of percy and Tyson is a big and strong guy.

I choose this book for two reasons. One is that I already read book number one and I am so into it that I want to read the second one. The second reason is that the movie is going to be out soon so I want to read the book first then I want to see the movie. I love this book because its something original and I like unique things. But what I like more is how the author uses details and expressions, and theres a lot of dialogue between characters so I also like that. Book one was excellent I hope number to is the same or better.