Goodreads summary:
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.
My rating - 3.5
My review:
I did really enjoy this book.. It's told from the perspectives of three sisters who are the descendants of Medusa.. Gretchen knows what she is and has spent years hunting monsters she was born to send back to their world, Grace is the one who's just seen her first creature, and there's Greer who saw a creature when she was a child but put it down to imagination and led a normal life .. They were separated at birth, and all three sisters find each other and learn about their destiny
Main characters
Gretchen - your typical kick-ass heroin, which is the type of character I like to read about, as it makes a change from your typical YA whiny/damsel in distress character
Grace - A very shy/sweet girl.. She is also very clever. At first she seemed like one of those damsel in distress characters I hate, but then she started to grow a backbone
Greer - Very "queen bee" and I hated her at first.. Too bitchy and annoying. But I soon warmed to her, and at towards the end of the book I started to really like her character
Other characters
Each girl has a love interest, but we don't really get much about them.
Nick - I found him creepy.. The way he kept following Gretchen around even when she tells him to back off, annoyed me quite a bit.. I kept thinking "just leave her alone!"
Milo - I quite liked him, but he didn't appear that often so I didn't really get to know his character.. He seemed nice enough so I'm looking forward to reading more of him
Kyle - He is Greer's love interest.. I didn't really like his character. I didn't "get him".. It might be just me (it usually is) but I found his character confusing and one-dimensional.
Thane - Thane is Grace's adoptive brother, and one of my favourite characters.. He's very protective, but a nice mannered person and I enjoyed reading about him. There's also something mysterious about him, especially towards the end when he has to "go away for a few days"
Ursula - Ursula is Gretchen's mentor. She has disappeared so you don't get to know her character at all, we just hear about her from Gretchen's perspective. Ursula isn't all that she seems
Sthenno - She is Ursula's sister and she doesn't appear in the story (well, she does kind of)
Plot
The plot is one of the reasons why I didn't give this a higher rating. It was very fast paced but nothing much really happened.. The sisters are finding out who they really are and about their destiny's, but nothing much else happens. I found myself twiddling my thumbs during some parts. This is the first in a series, so I guess she's making it simple so people can get to know the characters and the backbone of the story
I just wish she added some more conflict.
Ending
The ending was another reason why I didn't give this book a higher rating. It's very interesting and makes me want to read more, but.. I don't like it when stories end with cliffhangers.
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