Series: Mythos Academy #1
Narrator: Tara Sands
Publication date: August 1st
2011
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
ISBN-13: 9781469283876
Synopsis
Mom was a great cop, a strong woman that
fought for justice and loved her family. Now she is gone, she left me and
grandma behind and now thanks to an invitation to join Mythos academy now we
can’t be together.
In the academy I am not like the others,
here where Vikings, Spartans and descendants of other great warriors come to
train and perfect their crafts I am still a freak. Call it a blessing, call it
a curse but we see the story behind the things, they talk to us, share with us
more than I would like to know. Don’t get me wrong it comes in handy here and
there but it comes with a big side dish of TMI.
Now in a school that loves to give
classes about mythological history and trains younglings in the ways of the warriors
a murder has happened, the place that was said to be the safest for us has been
violated, the strange thing was that this person died while I lived, both of us
in the library practically alone and only one of us made it out. Don’t get me
wrong I am happy to be alive, but why her? Why me?
Review
First Frost had a Veronica Mars kind of
feel to it, sadly the narrator took that a little too far, she limited the
inflections of her voice to a smart-ass Veronica that kill my Genna Frost buzz
at the beginning of the book, I am not going to lie it took a while to get over
it.
Besides that, the story was fun and
honestly I just couldn’t wait to see how Genna really fitted into this mythological
world and the actual mythology. If you are in the market for some evil Loki
then you might want to give touch of frost a go.
There were some things that were easy to
decipher but there were others that gave me a good surprise and spiced up the
story.
Character wise Genna had some good
moments, but sadly there was a point in her grieving that got repetitive as we
heard about the circumstances that lead to her mother’s demise, which she takes
full blame but from the beginning, at least for me, it didn’t feel that she was
guilty at all.
The secondary characters I would say that
the author is giving us a shy approach in presenting them to us, you see who is
important, but because Genna is an outcast she isn’t ready to open up to them
and to let us get more time with them. Yet I am looking forward to the second
book to explore more of the characters and hopefully Tara Sands will learn from
her mistakes and put more life into the life of Genna Frost and the world of
Mythos Academy.
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