Title: Sweet Venom
Series: Medusa Girls #1
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Genre: YA, urban fantasy, Greek mythology
Publication date: September 2011
Published by: Katherine Tegen Books
Source: Purchased hardcover
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Buy it: Amazon | Book Depository | Thrift BooksSynopsis: Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful Gorgon maligned in myth, must reunite and embrace their fates.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, 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...
I was very excited to read this book—the idea of triplet descendants of Medusa fighting monsters just sounded incredible! And while I did enjoy the book overall, it did fall a bit short of my expectations.
So we start off with Grace and Gretchen, and the third sister, Greer, doesn’t show up till much later in the book. Gretchen was badass and snarky and I liked her overall, but at times she would cross that fine line between snark and being just plain mean which 😬 Especially when it came to the new boy, Nick, who CLEARLY hah a thing for her. I get why she wants to push him away, but she literally pushed him away. Girl! Rude! And at times Nick was a bit smothering, so I get it. But they did have their cute moments, what with all the bickering. It was fun.
As for Grace, she was a pushover and painfully shy, especially when it came to the cute boy Milo, who she couldn’t seem to function around. Lol. But by the end, I was glad to see she wasn’t a stuttering idiot anymore... that would’ve been annoying 😬 Lol. Oh! But I did love her brother Thane, who was such a sweetheart! His background sounded so awful though 😩
As for Greer, I kinda hated her as soon as we met her. She was a rich snob, and I just really did not like her. There was one point where she said she had this strong sense of responsibility when it came to saving tourists or whatever, and I was like... where?! Where is this coming from? It was hard to believe because, up to this point, she had not shown any interest in saving anyone from anything. Although I have to admit that it seemed like she didn’t have the best life despite having EVERYTHING in her life.
I’ve always felt like more of an accessory than an expression of love.
Inattentive parents, man. Poor girl. It really sucks.
But the mythos of this world, I really loved. I loved all the different powers the sister had and the reason why the descendants of Medusa hunt monsters in the first place. And I also enjoyed seeing all these new-to-me monsters. Guys, I love my mythology, so I know about a lot of different monsters. But this one had some I had never heard about and I loved that!
This book kinda felt like there was barely any story there. I mean, I guess the plot was just the girls finding themselves and working together, but it just left so much unanswered. I guess it was more character-driven? Anyway, it was a good read overall. I wasn’t overly impressed with the book, but I enjoyed the mythology and all the different mythological monsters. I also loved the sisters finding each other and working together. The romance was fine... but there was just something missing. I’ll definitely be continuing the series though... mostly because I own the other two books 😅
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