The second book in the Percy Jackson series started like this "My Best Friend Shops for a Wedding Dress" already laughing my ass off... Seriously it only get better the farther you get in, the more hilarious.
Grover is in trouble, the camp is in trouble and Percy gets a half-brother Tyson... only difference, other than of course the fact that they have different mothers... is that he is a cyclops, a cute scared of everything cyclops.
Grover has been kidnapped by an almost blind, old, evil mother fucking cyclops... you can kind of see why Annabeth doesn't trust Tyson to begin with... oh and by the way his name Polyphemus. The camp has problems since Thalia's tree has been poisoned... Oh and Thalia's story is kind of important so here is the short version: Thalia was the daughter of Zeus... she shouldn't exit. Well... a satyr was sent to protect her and only her, but she had found 2 other demigods, that she wouldn't leave behind so he took also them on the journey to camp half blood... but he takes a couple of wrong turns... one into the lair of an evil cyclops... and that is not good with all the worst monsters from tartarus wanting to kill you. It all ended at half blood hill where she stood alone fighting... and of course she dies.
Well... it turns out the cyclops that has kidnapped Grover... and wants to marry him... has The Golden Fleece... on an island that no one knows the position of other than a couple of old taxi drivers, it is in the middle of the Sea of Monsters or as we mere mortal call it The Bermuda Triangle.
Oh... they fired Chiron... cause someone has to take the blame, right, so why not the awesome guy. So there is this new guy Tantalus.. and he is an evil bastard, hates everyone, special kids, the gods... oh and did I mention he hates kids.
"He’s only giving me two weeks to finish the bridal train, and he’s getting impatient!’
‘Wait a minute. This Cyclops thinks you’re –’
‘Yes!’ Grover wailed. ‘He thinks I’m a lady Cyclops and he wants to marry me!’"
Well they tell Tantalus about The Fleece is and the coordinates the Gray Sisters gave them: 30, 31, 75, 12
And of course since Tantalus has an especial hate just for Percy and Annabeth, he gives the quest to Clarisse... and of course Percy, Annabeth and Tyson sneak of too save Grover and the camp... with a little persuasion from Hermes.
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"My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing |
They board the zombie ship Princess Andromeda
and that goes ... well I wouldn't exactly call it bad,but defensively not good.
They meet Luke again and he has a golden sarcophagus where he is assembling "The Crocked" mostly known as worst father of all time... Kronos, Titan of the time... well can you guy see yourself fighting a guy that can control time.
And they get caught and almost get eaten... but Percy did his thing and they all escaped.
"So?’ I demanded. ‘What’s so special…’
Then it hit me, what might be inside the sarcophagus. The temperature in the room seemed to drop twenty degrees. ‘Whoa, you don’t mean –’
‘He is re-forming,’ Luke said. ‘Little by little, we’re calling his life force out of the pit. With every recruit who pledges our cause, another small piece appears –’
‘That’s disgusting!’ Annabeth said."
They go to one of Luke's, Thalia's and Annabeth's old hideouts... where they almost get killed by Monster Doughnuts... Don't ask... and take a ride with dead confederates on an old confederate boat.. with Clarisse, and Tantalus has expels them for all eternity, and Mr. D wants to turn them into squirrel and kill them with his car.
To get into the Sea of Monsters the have to go through either Charybdis that sucks everything in the sea up and spits it out again or Scylla man eating thingy... guess what they choose... And well that ended with an exploding ship.
They float around in a rowboat for some time before coming to a lovely spa... in the middle of The Bermuda Triangle, ladies... not suspicious at all.
Well, Percy gets transformed to a rodent by the lovely Circe and Annabeth finds out what vitamins can do for you.
They find Polyphemus' island, and killer sheep...
Stars: 4.85 stars
Clarisse pisses me off so often, but she is also kind off funny.
And I seriously loved the idea about Grover wearing a wedding dress, imagine your best guy friend in a dress... or not that, now that i come to think about it is rather disturbing seeing a guy you know in a dress... YUK!!
What can you use this book for in real life:
Never enter The Bermuda Triangle.
Even how hard it is never give up on people you love.. especially trying to save them... maybe not from a cannibal cyclops, but maybe from self destruction with drugs or something like that
Sorry I just had no idea where to put this quote, but I thought it deserved it, so here it is
" Sweet dreams. Don't let me die!"
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