Tüm seriyle ilgili düşüncelerimi birinci kitaba yazmaktansa buraya yazacağım, çünkü incelemem spoiler içerecek ve seriyi -bu kitap da dahil- okumadıysanız şayet bu incelemeye bakmamanızı öneririm.
İlk Percy Jackson serisini okuduğumda ortaokulun başlarındaydım. İkinci seriye başladığımdaysa lisedeydim fakat o zamanki koşullarım altında seriyi
“My people were the original Athenians – the gemini.”
“Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.”
“No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.”
“Snake people do not drink milk,” Kekrops said. “We are lactose-intolerant reptiles.”
“Me, too!” Frank said. “I mean... lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes—“
“Atlantis?” Jason asked.
“That’s a myth,” Percy said.
“Uh... don’t we deal in myths?”
“No, I mean it’s a made-up myth. Not like, an actual true myth.”
“So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, then?”
“Shut up, Grace.”
An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, ‘Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He’ll love me for that!’