5/24/2023 0 Comments Oh my gods by tera lynn childs![]() ![]() Add the romantic island setting, snappy dialogue, boys as handsome as Adonis, a few conniving (but ultimately harmless) villains and a protagonist who is a hard-core athlete as much as a girl who squeals about the possibility of a date, and together they make an effervescent, fast-paced read. ![]() Now, instead of enjoying a triumphant track season and planning for college. The academy's cliques, for example, include the Zeus/Hera set (into “power, privilege, and partying”), the Poseidon crowd (surfers) and nerds, who descend from Hephaestus (“I think he's embarrassed by them,” one student confides). Read a sample Read a sample Description Details Reviews When Phoebes mom returns from Greece with a new husband and plans to move to an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebes well-plotted senior year becomes ancient history. Debut author Childs's creativity in manipulating mythology gives an otherwise familiar plot a fun, fresh update. The twist: it's Plato's Academy, now filled with the descendants of the Greek gods and goddesses. Phoebe Castro's plans for her senior year undergo a radical makeover when her widowed mother returns early from a Greek vacation, engaged to a man she's just met and determined to whisk Phoebe off to the tiny Aegean island of Serfopoula, where her future stepfather runs the academy that Phoebe will attend. ![]()
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