This review is by Isaiah, age 12.
Percy Jackson and two of his friends go to a military boarding school where another of their friends, Grover, a satyr, finds two half-bloods. They manage to get the half-bloods back to Camp Half-Blood, but when they get to the camp, they find that Artemis (the Goddess of the moon) has been captured. They must go on a quest with the hunters to find Artemis and rescue her.
I like this book, but not as much as the other ones because it's not quite as exciting and it is somewhat of an odd storyline. It seems odd to me because it uses a lot of mythology that is unfamiliar to me.
An interesting thing about this series is that it is set in the United States. Mount Olympus is above New York City's Empire State building, the underworld is under Los Angeles, California, and Atlas' mountain (where he holds up the sky) is in San Francisco. Also the labyrinth of Dedalus is under the entire American continent, the monster Typhon's prison is Mt. St. Helen's in Washington State, and the cyclops' island is in the Bermuda Triangle (the Sea of Monsters). According to these books, as people moved to the west, so did the gods. "The Gods will be wherever the heart of the west is", the people in the book say. And currently this is in America.
These locations make both mythology and these books easier to understand because I know the name of every single place mentioned and I've either seen pictures or been to these places myself. This makes me enjoy these books even more.
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