Percy cleans with fire, Hermes dashes in, and Tantalus becomes an even bigger prat—all this and more on the seventh part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…

I Accept Gifts from a Stranger

Though lacking in much actual action, this chapter shoves us onto the flight deck, fuels up the jet, and clears us for launch. (Aren’t metaphors fun?) Midway through I found myself a little down on things, but then I realized I was resisting some of Riordan’s Greek mythology updates only because they contradicted with my own in Zeus Is Dead. [Read more…]