Title Oh.My.Gods Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art Lori Thorn Publisher Penguin Group - 2008 First Printing Delacorte Press - 2009
	Title The Twelve Days of Stella Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Phoebe's Fair Valentine Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Goddess Boot Camp Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art --- Publisher Dutton Books - 2009 First Printing Dutton Books - 2009
	Title Nicole's Labyrinth Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Goddess in Time Author Tera Lynn Childs Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Category Young Adult Warnings None Main Characters Phoebe Castro, Stella, Griffin, Nicole, Troy, Adara Main Elements Demi-gods Website ---

Oh.My.Gods

Goddess Boot Camp

Know what, I enjoyed these two books, though of course there is a fair amount of teenage angst, it doesn't take itself too seriously and the humour shone through. I loved the fact that Phoebe was a runner, it gave her more of a personality than you usually get from YA heroines.

The books are little bit like a cross between Harry Potter (i.e. a magic school) and the Percy Jackson books (Geek demi-gods), though I didn't quite understand why the kids had all these powers, like the ability to turn food into sea slugs. If you read Greek mythology, the mortal offsprint of the gods don't really have much in the way of powers. Sure Herakles was super strong, but others like Theseus and Orpheus, though great warriors/musicians/etc, weren't teleporting themselves around. Even the gods didn't tend to teleport, they would take out their various magical chariots to get from one place to another, so that lack of fidelity the the original mythology took away a bit of the...guess you can call "believability" of the story. I also figured out the surprise ending fairly early on, though that didn't take away from the fun I was having reading the books.

I didn't enjoy the second book as much, I can't go into all the details why since it would give away too much of the first book, but took many things just fell into place at the right time, all the enemies turned out to be friends and some of the challenges contrived and the thing that was supposedly so hard ended up being so easy. I think I could have just stopped after the first book really, but at least the second one I found on OpenLibrary so was free to read. I can't find any of the short stories though, if those were available online somewhere I would definitely give them a quick read.

Thus while nowhere near as good at melding mythology and the modern day as Riordan, nor creating a magical school as Rowling, these books were a fun summer read that made me smile. A surprisingly down to earth heroine in a far from normal situation.