Title: Sweet Venom (Medusa Girls #1)
Author: Terra Lynn Childs
Published: September 6th 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books
Book Description:
Grace just moved to
San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full
of fresh possibilities, but it’s also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a
minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just
like her shows up to fight the monster.
Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.
Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.
These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.
Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.
Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.
These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.
My Thoughts:
Three sisters…
One destiny…
It’s not very often that I come across a book with three strong heroines
out to fight mythological creatures that threaten humankind. All I can say is
that I really enjoyed reading this book. Although the chapters were written in
three different first person POV’s, it’s really easy to distinguish who’s who
because each of the girls has their own distinct characteristic and voices that
made them unique and Childs did such a brilliant job writing this.
I love the three sisters to bits and
it’s really hard choosing which one of them is my favorite. Gretchen is strong
and kick-ass, Grace is sweet, caring and cheerful, while Greer is our
high-class, snobby girl. Each of them has something that you can really relate
to.
An interesting plot, awesome
characters, action-packed, mythological creatures and a bit of romance, all in
one book! A lot of questions were still not answered and that cliffhanger
ending just made me want to read the sequel more. I can’t wait to get my hands
on it!
I definitely recommend this to Greek
mythology/YA fans!
I give this book 4.5 whales.
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ReplyDeleteLooks like you've got a good lot of reading ahead of you :) Can't wait to read White Lines!