Finished "The Titan's Curse"

The Titan's Curse is the third installment in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series. As I previously stated in another post, the ancient Greek culture is brought to the present in a creative and informative way. Modern twists are put into an otherwise serious and noble culture. (EX: The chariot of Apollo being a sports car, and Posiedon being clad in fisherman's gear.)The scenarios which Rick Riordan uses in his stories reflect, in some cases, the journeys of Odysseus, they give a new view towards one whom most would count a selfless character (Hercules), and recreates the ancient peril with a new band of unlikely heroes, a group a adolescents who are the offspring of the various gods an goddesses of Mount Olympus.
In this third installment, tension is again created between the three elder gods, (Zues, Posiedon, Hades) when a new pieces in the game, as the author puts it, are brought back into play. These 'pieces' would be a girl who many believed gone from this world, and the other two would be newly discovered demigods (the name for the children of the gods and humans) that the monsters serving the Titans have been sent to kidnap. No one knows for sure the parentage of these two young children, but it is later revealed that they are of great importance.
While the decision to fight against the reformation of the Titan Lord Kronos is being determined by the gods and goddesses, the daughter of Athena is taken by the enemy and forced to bear the "Titan's Curse". (If you have any doubt as to what that may be, I encourage you to read these books or brush up on ancient Greek culture!) Also, this book clearly expresses why some people choose to endure great pain or martyr themselves for a cause. Numerous characters in this book force themselves to endure pain for the sake of a friend and another goes knowingly to her death so that she may save the one person she is bound to by love and allegiance.