How many times can something that is dead kill?This story was written by Alan Dean Foster about the ancient Greek myth of Perseus. The book begins with Perseus' mother being executed by sea, Perseus' grandfather put him and his mother into a coffin and nailed them in, then he and a group of soldiers. After being thrust into the sea, Poseidon guides the coffin to the island of Seriphos where there was a small settlement that lived on the island. Only Perseus survived the trip to the island, but he was raised to be the strongest and the best fisherman on the entire island. Once he was told of the outside world and how he arrived on the island, he set sail for Joppa where he met the princess Andromeda who was cursed to visit Calibos every night. Perseus was hired by the queen to follow her one night and slay Calibos. Then Perseus sets off on a quest to continue to slay the greatest monster that the world had ever seen.This was an excellently written book with an exhilarating plot. Foster describes scenes and actions fluently and with great detail, he does so while doing a great job of showing rather than telling with a great attempt at convincing the reader that this is not fictional. Though there is practically no way to completely make the reader think the same things as the author wants him to think, Foster does a nice job in attempting to do this. He fluently expresses what he wants the reader to know without telling the reader what it is he wants them to know. All in all, this was a great book, and i would recommend it for anyone who has time and wants to read a good book.
