The Sea of Monsters by Riordan is the second book in the Percy Jackson series. On his last day of school, Percy suddenly finds himself surrounded by monsters again in gym class. With the help of his new friend Tyson, they escape, meet up with Annabeth, and head to Camp Half Blood. Even at camp things are not as they should be. The camp is no longer safe from monsters because Thalia's tree has been poison. Chiron has been removed from the camp, and Percy keeps having dreams from his other friend Grover asking him for help. When Percy suggests a quest to find the golden fleece to save the tree and the camp (and rescue Grover in the process), the quest is given to Clarisse, the stubborn daughter of Aries. As Percy ponders on whether to disobey orders and go search for Grover, Hermes appears offering him some useful presents and asking that while on his quest he also try to reason with Luke, Hermes' son, who has aligned himself with Kronos to take down the Olympian gods. Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson set out for the Bermuda Triangle to rescue Tyson and bring back the golden fleece, but they will have to reach their prize before Luke and forge an uneasy alliance with Clarisse to have a chance to succeed.
I was pretty hard on the first book of this series. I still maintain that the story would have been much better had it not been told in the first person with Percy as the narrator. There were a couple of sections of plot that were again fairly predictable, but the overall plot had a few surprises as well. I did enjoy this book more than the first one and recommend it as a light read for someone that enjoys Greek mythology or a basic good versus evil action packed style of tale.
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