I gave this book 4.25 stars, and it is one that I never hear people talking about when they talk about the series. It is amazing and has so many underrated moments, I just do not understand how people never talk about this book. We learn more about Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a girl who we were introduced to in the previous book, and Rachel is just pure humour and I love that for her.

Quotes:
- “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
- “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
- “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
- “You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
- “Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.”
- “I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?”
- As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.”
- “There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus."
- “When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).”
- “I thought maybe he was seeing another tree."
- “Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.”

Tropes:
- Greek Mythology
- Found Family