Woohoo! This is my first re-read of The Titan's Curse, and I'm excited to continue re-reading the rest of the series! This definitely wasn't my favorite of the PJO series (the title still remains with The Lightning Thief), but this book definitely holds crucial information and plants a lot of seeds for the rest of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, plus the Heroes of Olympus series. I do wish we had more time with Thalia, though; she's so spunky and complex. Rick Riordan does a great job of creating these differing and dynamic characters that mesh so well together and have you rooting for them the entire way.