Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Rating Explanation

Language: very mild

Violence: Like in the Lightning Thief, the characters fight and kill many mythical monsters. The characters are almost always in peril, but they always escape. There are battle scenes and sword fights.

Adult Themes: Characters are children of Greek god and human unions, but in this book these relationships are talked about much less.

Synopsis

Percy Jackson is off on another quest with his friends in the second book of the series. Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson, Percy’s newfound cyclopes half-brother, go to the Sea of Monsters to save Grover from Polyphemus and steal the Golden Fleece. The quest for the fleece is actually given to Clarisse, but she needs their help to defeat the Cyclopes and return to save Camp Half-Blood.

I actually enjoyed this book better than The Lightning Thief. Gratefully, it seemed much less like a Harry Potter knock-off than the first book.

In reading both books I realize how much Greek Mythology I have forgotten. They have been a fun refresher course in who’s who in Olympus. The story moves along quickly, always with a new foe on the horizon. I like the surprise ending in this book and will be glad to read #3, The Titan’s Curse. I am going to recommend these books to my 9 year-old son.

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