Title: Sweet Venom
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Release Date: 6 September 2011
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Series: Medusa Girls #1
Pages: 352
Goodreads 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.
This could have been a super good book, yes, but the way the story flowed was... jarring. It was jumping from place to place, and though it is meant to be arranged that way, I hoped to see Greer's POV earlier, rather than so far into it. Many a times I had to re-read the previous chapter to link certain events together. If there were more flow, more connections made between each event, things would have been so much better.
I also felt that the guys they liked/crushed on sections were redundant. They did not move or progress the story. They were just... scabs. They're there, but it wouldn't kill you to not have it there. I feel that they are there to illicit the interest of those wanted a romance-y edge as after all, this is a YA novel, but like scabs, they're also pretty annoying sometimes. I wanted to know what would happen next, and then they come barging in. But yet again, maybe they would play a bigger part in the next story.
The ending was very unresolved. I wouldn't call it a cliffhanger, but I don't feel the sense of resolution you get when you finish reading the book. It felt more like chopping off in the middle of the book. That added on to the unsatisfaction with the book
However, there are still the high points of the novel. I especially enjoyed interaction between the triplets, and I particularly liked Grace because hey- here's a nice angelic girl who can kick ass in computer skills. Now that is a unique and interesting combination. I was also intriguing by the light the Greek deities are put in. They are, in the book, jealous petty people with nothing better to do than make everyone's life miserable although we only know them by mention. Now that, is called adhereing to the myths.
And the cover, oh my. Cover lust all the way. Her hair seems to be alive, writhing and moving like a snake which does remind one of a baroque style, where the hair seemed in motion. The simplicity of it was also beautiful. Although I have to ask: Don't Greeks usually have black hair? Just some food for thought to mull over.
I did have hopes for this book, with much anticipation while awaiting its release too, but it was quite the let down, although I will read the next book to find out what happens.
And the cover, oh my. Cover lust all the way. Her hair seems to be alive, writhing and moving like a snake which does remind one of a baroque style, where the hair seemed in motion. The simplicity of it was also beautiful. Although I have to ask: Don't Greeks usually have black hair? Just some food for thought to mull over.
I did have hopes for this book, with much anticipation while awaiting its release too, but it was quite the let down, although I will read the next book to find out what happens.
3/5 :(
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