Goddess Boot Camp
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Series: Oh. My. Gods. (Oh. My. Gods.)
Publisher: Penguin Group
How Received: school library
Like I said, I've only known about these powers for a few months and these things aren't exactly easy to control.
Phoebe has gone from being a normal, every day moral to a descendant of Nike - goddess, not shoe - with superpowers that aren't so easy to control. (It's not her fault that she made the whole house snow. Really.) Now that her stepfather's enlisted her in "Goddess Boot Camp" - Dynamotheos Development Camp - with a bunch of ten year olds, she's found out about a test from the gods, her boyfriend may or may not be cheating on her, and she has to train hard enough to qualify for the Pythian Games-
-well, it may be one busy summer.
Goddess Boot Camp went along the same lines as Oh. My. Gods. - nothing substantial, predictable, but an easy and enjoyable brain-candy read.
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Oh, hello again, Griffin. What? Your descendant of Hercules-ness makes it okay for you to be overprotective? That's not annoying at all. Nope. Especially when you're running around with other girls - even if you're not doing anything with them, you're not telling Phoebe what you're doing then getting mad at her when she runs off on her own. Noooooo. That's not ridiculous at alllllll. (Though a brilliant character flaw, it was rather annoying.)
And hello, completely irrelevant camp characters! Girls who love to run and boys who date Stella - sure, they were nice additions, but the story could have done without them. Perhaps they'll play a part in the next novel. I'll wait and see.
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The best part of the novel was Phoebe's chase for finding what happened to her father, though. Mysterious notes, weird places... I loved that part.
Overall Rating & Final Comments: Same as it's original, a 6/10, with a recommendation if you're only in the mood for brain candy.
~ N