Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Summary from Amazon.com:
"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 in myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight."
This book was pretty good! Slow going at first, because the author is more interested in describing the girls' lives before they meet than in getting the story started. Descriptions of the monster fights are pretty neat, as are the girls abilities. I took off one star out of five because the book doesn't end. It does that thing so many 'trilogy' authors are doing (doesn't it seem like EVERYTHING is a trilogy nowadays?) where they leave a whole lot of loose ends to get you to read the sequel. This book left a LOT of loose ends. Pretty much, every mystery except when these three girls are finally going to meet and accept their fate is left unanswered. The girls only meet in the last few chapters of this 400-page book! They only accept who they are and become a team in the LAST chapter. That frustrates me.
Despite that fact, the book was pretty easy reading. I was through a hundred pages or so before I stopped and checked page numbers, so I know it got me pretty involved. I always love things stemming from Greek mythology ('Starcrossed,' anyone?) so the sequel is definitely on my to-read list.
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