this is an excellent book along the lines of the first one...
So, now percy is looking forward to settle in his camp and funnily enough (for him), there have been no major incidents through the year...so, he looks forward to his last match with an opposing team and then it is off to Camp Half-Blood...the day is marred by a nightmare and a shadow following him, but is nothing compared to the monsters that show up for the match...percy meets up with annabeth and finds that a cyclops has been his only friend at school for the last year....the cyclops turns out to be his brother (poseidon is a very virile ruler in this book keeping in tradition with mythology :-) ).
They reach the camp and find that the tree (which was thalia...until zeus turned his daughter into a tree just before she died) has been poisoned and so there is a danger of the camp being over-run by monsters...unless someone finds the golden fleece...so, though it is clarisse - daughter of aries who is selected for the quest, percy, his cyclops brother and annabeth set out on a quest to find the fleece, save their satyr friend grover and to ensure that clarisse - who had the original quest does not feel upset about losing out to percy...
on the way, they meet with adventures which would make both ulysses and hercules proud....and of course, the stage is set for the third book when they discover that their entire adventure was just another plot by Kronos to gain power.
The book is an excellent read and brings out growing up-pains in a very light-hearted way...i guess my favourite parts are quite easily the ones where percy first feels a sense of shame about his brother and then pride at his achievements...and then the part about the gray sisters which is remarkably remniscient of the time that perseus found out medusa's hideout by stealing their singe eye...i for one am looking forward to the third instalment...The Titan's Curse when it releases next May.
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