Okay, so I read the previous book, The Lightning Thief, in about twenty-four hours. I dashed that record to pieces; I started reading The Sea of Monsters around 5pm when I got home, with a break to eat, and also a break to run to the pet store and finished reading the whole book around 11pm.  It's good.  It's infuriatingly good!  I wouldn't want to start it and put it down - I'd rather just devote a handful of hours and read the book straight through.

The characters are just as greatly crafted, the setting wonderfully vivid, and the plot intricate and surprising enough you actually have to think about some parts of it.  I like that.  I also wish I knew the formula for creating a page-turner like this.  I'm eyeing the next book in the series wondering if I should start it tonight, or tomorrow - or even hold off until Sunday....

Go read The Lightning Thief.