The Sea of Monsters

Percy: Protecting his friends and loving life (kind of)
Me: Ok, off to a good start.
Percy: Is a jerk
Me: deep inhale Ok, it's fine. Remember he's only 13.
Percy: Once again lowers my opinion of him
Me: Puts down the book I just- I can't with him right now.
Percy: Is once again the Percy I love
Me: Fine, I forgive you (not really but I still love you).

I did not like this book as much as Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief. Although the book itself read very quickly, the plot just seemed to drag on for a longer amount of time than the first book did. I think it functioned more as the book that sets up the rest of the books, and although it did accomplish that it was just not exactly what I was wanting from it.
Percy really got under my skin almost this whole book, and I kept trying to tell myself that he's a thirteen year old boy with the fate of Olympus in his hands, but I still found myself throwing the book quite often. The way he treated Tyson after he found out that they were brothers irked me the whole book. One moment he was saying that Tyson was one of his best friends to treating him like he was a complete nuisances, and he was constantly saying how they're not really brothers. Often throughout the book he was so much more hesitant that the first book. Hermes was giving him the opportunity to go retrieve the fleece and save camp half blood, but he was like "oh I don't know the entire time".
What really saved this book for me was definitely the development of the relationship between Percy & Annabeth, and Tyson & Percy. I enjoyed seeing them all grow closer one on one, and also as a group. Overall I am pumped to read the third book.