First up, The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, author extraordinaire and the man who brought us last year's The Lightning Thief. This one continues young Percy Jackson's adventure and it's KILLER. Really awesome. Raps you up and transports you into a parallel universe where demigods run around among us and satyrs and centaurs exist, etc. It is a ( Read more... )

Allow me to say a hearty THANK YOU to the Mighty Dotificus for recommending this book a while back. I now officially have an author crush on Rick Riordan, too, for making the ancient Greek/Roman gods literally come to life for me.

In The Lightning Thief (which I insist that you run out and buy and read immediately -- or at least buy it, this one ( Read more... )