The Sea of Monsters
by Rick Riordan
I finished The Sea of Monsters audiobook. I'm loving the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series--and I know I would have loved it if it had been around when I was in elementary school. I'm thankful that my freshman honors English teacher did a large unit on Greek and Roman mythology, so a lot of the gods are familiar to me. Conversely, if I had read this before high school, then those quizzes and assignments would have come much easier to me. Nonetheless, I'm enjoying reading/listening to this series.
The story line is pretty good, and the main characters are starting to really shine. I wish the lesser characters were less one-dimensional, but it doesn't hurt the story, so I'm ok with it. This is the perfect sort of book to listen to on audiobook, because the storyline is easy to follow, it is entertaining on my commute to/from work, and it is easy to pick back up again. The hard part about audiobooks, is that I can't look back a few pages or chapters to remember what I recently read. Therefore, I have to use my brain to really think about what happened when I last listened. I'm getting better at this with practice--I actually try to summarize the past events in my head while I'm plugging my phone into my car's audio jack to get my audiobook on and playing.
Overall, I definitely recommend this series to people of all ages! Hopefully I can read it to my own kids one day.
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