The Titan's Curse (Week 4)

          In my fourth week of reading The Titan's Curse surprised me. Well, first of all, Percy has another dream. And in his dream, he is in some mystical land with a girl. And she says something about Landon being too strong and will stop them. They were frantically running in the dream. The girl (who Percy is positive is one of the hunter gods, Zoe) says that she is very afraid. She then gives Percy a hairpin and says that he must use it to fight. She called this weapon Anaklusmos. I feel like this entire two page scene is sometime of foreshadowing highlighting a significant scene later in the book.
One part of this book that I enjoyed was when the hunters, campers, and Percy fought the Nemean lion. The Nemean lion is a mythical creature with huge teeth. The lion also had metallic fur. After a little bit of figuring out, Percy and his friends discover that the lion is vulnerable in the mouth area. Percy then gets the lion to open up his mouth and the hunters shoot arrows into the lion's mouth to slay it.
          If the author was sitting right across from me, one thing I would really like to ask him how he comes up with all of the characters. The creativity and imagery used to make some of the monsters is very neat. I would ask him if he gets these characters from Greek myths or does he just create all of the characters from scratch in his head?
          Overall, so far The Titan's Curse is a great book. I do feel that the book feels a little bit slow, but hopefully some of the small details can enhance the entire book and make sense later in the story. I would recommend this book for people who like fantasy.

I rate this book 7.5/10 so far.
-Connor