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A review by daumari
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Week 2 of 17th Shard discord's PJO read along! I am a first time reader of these books.
3.5 rounding up because I still found this to be a fun adventure, riffing on the Odyssey (LOVE that we even got a reference to Penelope unraveling her weaving every day). We must protect Tyson at all costs and I love the lore with horses and cyclops- wondering what other Poseidon things will pop up in later books.
Bit of a discussion this week in the channel - in chapter 2, middle school bully Sloan calls Tyson (Percy's new friend this school year) the r slur, which took some readers out. I started on a library copy because I wanted to get to this quick, but I'd ordered a used copy online and it turned out to be a 2022 edition paperback, where the line has been updated to have Sloan call Tyson a deadbeat instead. Still a pejorative, but instead of using a slur he's being classist which still shows he's not a good person without being heinously offensive in a middle grade novel.
Prophecy comes up again and how its interpretation can be fiddly, with repercussions.
3.5 rounding up because I still found this to be a fun adventure, riffing on the Odyssey (LOVE that we even got a reference to Penelope unraveling her weaving every day). We must protect Tyson at all costs and I love the lore with horses and cyclops- wondering what other Poseidon things will pop up in later books.
Bit of a discussion this week in the channel - in chapter 2, middle school bully Sloan calls Tyson (Percy's new friend this school year) the r slur, which took some readers out. I started on a library copy because I wanted to get to this quick, but I'd ordered a used copy online and it turned out to be a 2022 edition paperback, where the line has been updated to have Sloan call Tyson a deadbeat instead. Still a pejorative, but instead of using a slur he's being classist which still shows he's not a good person without being heinously offensive in a middle grade novel.
Prophecy comes up again and how its interpretation can be fiddly, with repercussions.