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  • The Sea of Monsters

  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2
  • Written by: Rick Riordan
  • Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
  • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (644 ratings)

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The Sea of Monsters

Written by: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
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Publisher's Summary

After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.

©2006 Rick Riordan (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Company

What the critics say

"Adventure follows chaotic adventure at a rapid pace, and readers with even a passing acquaintance with the Odyssey will enjoy this fresh use of familiar stories." (School Library Journal)

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The story is good but the reader has a bad tendency to put an ‘L’ in the word both and pronounces it like ‘bolth.’ It gets annoying after a while. There are quite a few characters who the reader uses the same voice for which can be confusing at times.

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Pretty neat

A pretty dang cool book. Very intriguing to people with interests of Greek mythology and early teen books

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you are awesome 😘my cat likes to listen too .

loved it 😂💶💴I love you you are awesome you're the best best awsome I love you

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Baller

Story slaps, good vibes, bussin narration, and had me the whole time, that on period.

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love the books problems with narration

I love this series. have read the hard copies and now listened to them. i only wish the narrator would watch the movie or talk to the author when it comes to names. I got very frustrated with his saying Tailia's name wrong.

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Great job!!!

I love this book series! My brother is obsessed.good narration, good voices,good characters good everything,really.keep up the good work!🥰😊

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How much I loved this book

The book was full of fun and imagination and those two things are so important for todays youth I loved everything about it

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Funny & Just A Little Bit Thrilling

Of the whole series, I think this is the one that had me most on my toes, though this might be attributed to my having read the book so long ago — and having seen the movie « adaptation » more than once in between. The book is much better, and the performance of the reader allowed me to see it happen in my head exactly how the movie should have been. Delightful and full of twists and turns I was happy to revisit.

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wonderful!!!!!!

I loved it!!!!! tisens personality is amazing. you'll love this book it's so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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Adventures and syifi

Overall a really good book I liked how it would make a real day and how it would feel like you were in the book. I recommend this book to everyone who likes a good story. The audio was well and the performance the story was amazing. It is a really good book to read or listen to and a good to listen when you are on a bus or in bed or whenever. Well that sums it up bye.

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  • BR from Richmond
  • 2006-09-03

great family fare

My 11 and 9-year-old kids (a boy and a girl) have really enjoyed this series and I have gotten caught up in it too. The story is fun and engaging. There are a series of battles and challenges and plenty of suspense, but it is all laced with humor. The books have also gotten my kids very interested in learning about Greek mythology-- bonus! The reader is pretty good with voices and does a convincing teenage narrator. I'm glad they've chosen to go with the same reader for both books in the series so far and hope they continue. The first book in the series is called the Lightening Thief.

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  • Josh
  • 2010-07-12

This is realy good book

I previously owned the book but this audio makes the book feel all new to me. It makes it feel like I am acually there with Percy as he is the nearly getting blasted by dodgeballs of death. It was defiantly woth my time.

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  • Margarita
  • 2015-03-05

Brace Yourself

This book was amazing! Just as good as the first one! It was enthralling and an overall mysterious feel as if the next step they took could have been off a cliff. But on the other hand the narrator was'nt as good with some of the characters, they just sounded either shrill or dopey or flat or all three. I would consider buying this as a real book but since Jesse spoke as Percy most of the time it was'nt the worst. Great book and the audiobook is good if your hands are busy. If you have time I would try to read the book. Just one warning, have the next book ready to read right away!

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  • Melissa
  • 2007-07-19

great book

The Sea of Monsters was a great sequel to the lightning thief. It was probrably the best book i have read.

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  • Brad
  • 2015-05-07

The best

This was a very good book if you like the first one you would like this one. I love it.

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  • S. A. Hall
  • 2015-03-25

love the books

I love the stories and learning more mythology also. Great storytine and worth the read. much better than the movies.

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  • Craig H.
  • 2011-03-17

Genuinely Wonderful Teen Writer

My teenage daughter loves to read and has thoroughly enjoyed Riordan's books. I have also read these stories and they are very well written. I am an extremely difficult to please reader and I actually enjoyed this book. I prefer paper to my MP3 but the plot and story line was well thought out and planned. The flow is great and the Greek history or Greek God stories actually play a phenomenal part in the stories. The way the author flows the historical stories of the Greek gods with the present is inspiring and just fun. He leaves something for the next book and keeps you wanting more. I believe Rick Riordan is very talented writer and I read about 30 to 40 novels per year and listen to the same amount.

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  • Stephanie
  • 2012-03-26

So what if I'm a grown up?

I am not afraid to admit that I love these books! Obviously, the mythological basis for the stories is the magnet for me, but the action and adventure hold my attention. I find the narrator a little distracting at times, but he does a fair job. I do think the best narrators are the ones who don't act like they're reading a kid's book, of which Mr. Bernstein is unfortunately guilty.

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  • Rosemarie
  • 2009-01-01

Horrible narration takes the fun out of the story.

My daughter couldn't wait to listen to this as she just finished reading the book, but she and I both found the narrator's rendition of the various characters annoying. He didn't seem to match voices with personalities and made all the children sound a bit dumb. If it wasn't for the poor narration, the book would have been a delightful listen though I believe the first book in this series is better. Then again, I read the first book and did not listen to it. This may be better served read and not listened to.

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  • Jason
  • 2008-10-04

Sophmoric

Rick Riordan's second book in the Olympus series is quite good, but is not as entertaining as the first book. However, much like JK Rowling, his second book seems to be a spring-board for upcoming books in the series: Events that transpire in book 2 will likely be relevant in later books in the series. I look forward to "The Titan's Curse".

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