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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 (662 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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Great narration

The first book I was a bit unsure of this narrator but with this sequel I realized he did the best job of portraying Percy in my mind.

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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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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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Pretty neat

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

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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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Funniest book I’ve read

I have been obsessed with the series for almost four years and read all the series EVERY SINGLE ONE!!

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Even better

I’ve read this book and the rest of the series many times but listening to it made it even better it’s just overall a fantastic book if you love Greek mythology With a modern spin

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wonderful family listen

Kids 9 and 1( + parent!) loved it. makes bedtime much easier for us all.

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Amazing book

This book is amazing the series is awesome and thrilling and the series to follow is even better amazing overall would recommend

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Clever - if Repetitive - Premise.. Lame Execution

Even for the intended audience (pre-teens), this book is poorly delivered.
Rick Riordan has tapped into an ingenious Youth Literature formula: mix a misunderstood kid with a hidden destiny/concealed powers and a heart-of-gold into a fantastical scenario (vampires, dystopian environs, magic & sorcery, etc.)..
In Riordan's case, he combines dyslexic misfit Percy Jackson (secretly the demigod son of Poseidon) with Monsters and Gods from Greek Mythology. It's an undoubtedly successful paradigm, but the matrix has become strikingly formulaic for older youth and adults by this second book in Riordan's series. 'The Sea Of Monsters' borrows the same quest-based plot device used in the first book and presents it adequately.. but besides adding a couple of new characters doesn’t provide much innovation. It is almost an event-for-event retelling of Homer's 'Oddysey'.
To that lazy approach, Riordan adds episodes of straight-up puerile dialogue - this book approaches the infantile at times.

Jesse Bernstein again delivers an "average" performance. His voice-acting is a little improved with this text over 'The Lightning Thief', but his timbre remains subpar and he reads too slowly (The unremarkable narration was somewhat improved by speeding the playback rate to 1.15X.. but once again I found myself wishing Listening Library had hired someone different for the project).

I don’t doubt this second book in the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series will be enjoyable for your 8-12 year-old, but it’s only worth 4/10 stars to children's books fans like me. If your kid loved the first book, they will almost certainly like this one - go ahead and spend the Credit. Personally, I will not be continuing on with this increasingly adolescent series.

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