Skip to content
  • home
  • author site
  • contact me
  • book reviews
    • HIGHLIGHTS
    • children’s
    • fantasy
    • graphic novels
    • historical fiction
    • literature
    • mysteries
    • nonfiction
    • science fiction
    • young adult
  • recipes

Hello and welcome! My name is Emma (I write fantasy under the name E. M. Epps). This blog features my Two-Paragraph Book Reviews. One paragraph from me. One from the book. Here's why I keep it short.

You are here: Home > Review: “The Sea of Monsters” etc. by Rick Riordan

Review: “The Sea of Monsters” etc. by Rick Riordan

Image Emma 9 December 2013

Thumbs way up for The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. Children’s fantasy.

Percy Jackson – dyslexic teenage son of Poseidon – and his friends Grover the satyr and Annabeth, the daughter of Athena, have to fight the rising Titans and save Western Civilization. These books are like coke, and I don’t mean cola. I read the first one a few months ago  and wasn’t sure if I was going to continue (I believe I’ve mentioned my hatred of series), but on a whim I grabbed the second one to read over Thanksgiving. Then I was hooked, hooked, hooked, and ended up reading seven Riordan books in a row, keeping me up many late nights and ruining (by contrast) pretty much every moment I was not reading them. They are full of action and humor great characters, and also make brilliant use of Greek mythology. There are vanishingly few books I wish I’d written. These are some of them.

We did all the standard camp numbers: “Down by the Aegean,” “I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandpa,” “This Land is Minos’s Land.” The bonfire was enchanted, so the louder you sang, the higher it rose, changing color and heat with the mood of the crowd. On a good night, I’d seen it twenty feet high, bright purple, and so hot the whole front row’s marshmallows burst into the glames. Tonight, the fire was only five feet high, barely warm, and the flames were the color of lint.


If you enjoyed this post, please share it!
Posted in book review, books, children's, fantasy, thumbs up
Tagged Greek mythology, I loved this
Previous Post: Review: “Christina Katerina & the Box” by Patricia Lee Gauch
Next Post: Review: “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok

Secondary Sidebar

The newsletter and all content on this blog is free, but if you enjoy them, please consider supporting my work by contributing to my Patreon.

Search the reviews….

My Books

Cold Sandwiches and All: A Romantic Comedy

Mrs. Fromish's Guests

The Interpreter's Tale: A Word with Too Many Meanings

The Portrait of Geraldine Germaine

You Made My Heart a Hunter

To Hell and Back Again

Tags

Ancient Rome art biography book review books children's England fantasy funny GLBT graphic novels health highlights historical fiction history horror humor Japanese linguistics literature London memoir mystery NetGalley neutral nonfiction philosophy photos poetry psychology publications recipe review romance science/nature science fiction short stories suspense thumbs down thumbs up travel UK Uncategorized writing young adult

Archives

Twitter

Tweets by @emepps

Obligatory Disclaimer Thing

E. M. Epps is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. (That's what they tell me I have to say. This is not a lucrative venture, but if you do decide you want to read one of the books I link to, and your neighborhood bookstore hasn't got it, then it would be simply lovely if you were to go to Amazon via one of my links. That may get me 10c or so and then if a bunch of you do that maybe I would get myself a cup of tea or something like that. If you're feeling nice.)

Copyright © 2021. Proudly Powered by WordPress & Inception Theme

Facebook Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com