A review by katrinky
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
3.0
2022:
Much shorter and more plot-driven than the first one. I liked it less, even though my 10-years-ago self rated them the same. this one felt fundamentally insubstantial; I understand why we needed to get to Thalia being back, but the whole book felt like a blip.
2012:
Obsessed with adventure YA novels. Although this one, with its mentions of Circe and Scylla and Athena, made me itch to read "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" again. I always want to read that book again. It is tied with "The God of Small Things" as Most Poetic Book I Have Ever Read That Was Not a Book of Poetry. READ IT. This review is actually just a recommendation for another book. It happens.
Much shorter and more plot-driven than the first one. I liked it less, even though my 10-years-ago self rated them the same. this one felt fundamentally insubstantial; I understand why we needed to get to Thalia being back, but the whole book felt like a blip.
2012:
Obsessed with adventure YA novels. Although this one, with its mentions of Circe and Scylla and Athena, made me itch to read "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" again. I always want to read that book again. It is tied with "The God of Small Things" as Most Poetic Book I Have Ever Read That Was Not a Book of Poetry. READ IT. This review is actually just a recommendation for another book. It happens.