The Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

After a year spent trying to prevent a catastropic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson--a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.

But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: The magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters--the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millenia--only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name...the Bermuda Triangle.

Now Percy and his friends--Grover, Annabeth, and Tyson--must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family--one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.©2006 Rick Riordan; (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Company

Genuinely Wonderful Teen Writer

My teenage daughter loves to read and has thoroughly enjoyed Riordan's books. I have also read these stories and they are very well written. I am an extremely difficult to please reader and I actually enjoyed this book. I prefer paper to my MP3 but the plot and story line was well thought out and planned. The flow is great and the Greek history or Greek God stories actually play a phenomenal part in the stories. The way the author flows the historical stories of the Greek gods with the present is inspiring and just fun. He leaves something for the next book and keeps you wanting more. I believe Rick Riordan is very talented writer and I read about 30 to 40 novels per year and listen to the same amount.

excellent book good performance

Rick Riordan is a master story teller, I really love his modernization of Greek mythology in these books. The introduction of Tyson made this book for me. One question though why did Blackjack change genders? This is the only book where the character is a mare.

Wonderful yet again

Since watching both of the films I finally can say I enjoyed the books as well, But now that film series has ended and I begin uncertain but excited for what is to come, Jesse did a wonderful job yet again and I look forward to him reading through the rest of the series for me to enjoy.

Brilliant storytelling!

This book series was one of my favourites growing up. Now, working most of the time, I have discovered the joy of audio books and was brilliantly surprised by how much I missed (and accurately remember) these stories. My younger sister begged to listen to the first one with me, and was hooked. We zipped past this book in 1 day!As a past reader, I can say, that I genuinely and thoroughly enjoyed this audio book! As for my younger sister, she screamed "b****y brilliant! Can we start the next one already?!" We clearly can't wait to start the next one!

J

Good book I really enjoyed it. Absolutely Phenomenal. Great Book. Grant Story. Amazing job by Rick Riordan.