Annabeth finishes giving Percy the tour of the place, then says she has to go off to training and Percy should go see the Oracle.  No, of course she doesn’t explain what that is. I stared into the lake, wishing somebody would give me a straight answer for once. You and me both, buddy. Then…

Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. Not mentioned: getting over his dead mother. Seriously, author, why did you even “kill” her if he’s going to treat it like a disappearance anyway? As they get…

Percy wakes up sitting on a porch at Camp Half-Blood.  Grover is there, and he gives Percy the minotaur’s horn.  Percy realizes that everything really did happen, then spends some time in a funk because he believes his mom is dead.  And by ‘some time,’ I mean a few seconds.  Then he drinks the magic…

So, Sally starts driving like a bat out of hell to get away from the…whatever, and Percy is still boggled that Grover has goat legs.  He asks how Grover and his mom know each other, and it’s said that his mom just knew about him, not knew Grover specifically.  So…how come his mom gets to…

Our hero decides to ditch Grover just as soon as he gets off the bus, so he can run off to his home alone.  But this works for me.  Sure, it’s a crappy thing to do.  Unlike other books we’ve read on this blog, however, this one outright admits that it’s a rude thing to…