Book 2:
The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan
Summary:
Percy Jackson has been fighting monsters and searching for
half-bloods with his friends Annabeth and Thalia since The Sea of Monsters
ended. Grover has found two siblings – Bianca and Nico di Angelo – at a school,
and in the ensuing battle against a manticore, Annabeth gets taken. The goddess
Artemis arrives with her Hunters, and Percy’s next adventure begins with the
search for Annabeth and the goal to save Artemis before the Olympian Council at
the winter solstice. Grover and Thalia go on a quest with a Hunter named Zoe
and Bianca, who has also joined the Hunters. After some adventures, Percy
officially joins them, and they race across the country to San Francisco to stop
the most recent component of Kronos’ plan to return. By the end of their
journey, Bianca has been lost and Zoe has been killed, but both Annabeth and
Artemis have been rescued. They have also learned that one of the children born
of Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon will sacrifice the Ophiotaurus at the age of 16
and will start the war among the gods. Thalia – daughter of Zeus and one day
away from her sixteenth birthday – chooses to join the Hunters and take Zoe’s
place as Artemis’ lieutenant, thus becoming immortal. This leaves Percy as the
only child of the Big Three able to turn sixteen and the only one thus able to
fulfill the prophecy – other than Nico di Angelo, who Percy learns is the son
of Hades.
