Percy is at it again.
Not listening to the people in charge. Fighting with Gods. Making snap decisions that could endanger the entire world.... all in the attempt to save it from the more recent cataclysm.
The evil guys are gathering and the General has stolen Annabeth and Artemis. With the help of some of Artemis' Hunters, will they be able to save them before Kronos is put back together?
Another fun and quick read by Riordan. I am loving this series more with every book. You can see his writing become more comfortable. I love watching the evolution of a writer.
This is a YA book I am happy to have in my personal library. ( )

Truly the reason I think this story works so well in the place that it is in the series is because of the number of characters that are introduced. Even though they are not the main characters or focus, they play crucial roles later in the series, as well as in the world of Percy Jackson as a whole.

Even though the story doesn't follow Annabeth (i.e. my favorite character), I still love this story, and large amounts of character development across multiple characters, as well as the repetition of the important character flaws that exist in the MCs that allude to future plot points in the next couple of books. ( )

I am really enjoying this series. It's very similar to Harry Potter (an oracle/prophecy and the fate of the magical/mythical world resting on a single kid), but it's lack of originality doesn't bother me enough to give the series a lower rating. Not much in the literature world is original, really. This is certainly not as great as the HP series, but still an entertaining and fun read. ( )

Da bin ich doch an einem Tag mit Percy und den anderen duch dieses Buch "galoppiert". Diese Reihe macht wirklich Spaß, und wer will lernt nebenbei noch etwas über die griechische Mythologie. ( )

This is easily the most satisfying installment so far of the Percy Jackson franchise. Riordan still runs his tale at full throttle, giving neither characters nor readers barely a moment to pause, reflect, and assess, but more dimensions to the characters and the stakes are brought forward. This book is more about costs and casualties, subtly alluding to Percy's (and Annabeth's) increasing adolescent maturity.

Two new characters take the story in richer directions and one, ten-year-old* Nico, is apparently set to play a greater role in the overall saga; he cuts a cool figure among the other half-bloods and the contrasts are fun. The Olympians are met but for Hestia, and these updated forms work nicely; Apollo's brazen showmanship and lousy haiku are not a real stretch. Dionysus finally gets to play a role in classic character towards the end and Riordan shows why a god of Madness is not one to trifle with, even allowing "Mr. D" to drop the take-away line about power being difficult to resist. Nice.

"The Titan's Curse" is an uptick across the board, but it really is time to address the soon-to-be-15 year old Percy & Annabeth's physical and maturational growth; they still act and talk like they did at 12.

[* - There seems to have been a time-freeze involved along the way, so Nico was _born_ some 80 years previously. More to follow on that, I guess.] ( )