Author: Kate O 'hearn
Publisher: Hodder childen's books
First published: 2011
Pages: 344
Series: Pegasus
Star rating: *****
When Pegasus crashes onto a Manhattan roof during a terrible storm, Emily’s life changes forever. Suddenly allied with a winged horse she’d always thought was mythical, Emily is thrust into the center of a fierce battle between the Roman gods and a terrifying race of multiarmed stone warriors called the Nirads. Emily must team up with a thief named Paelen, the goddess Diana, and a boy named Joel in order to return Pegasus to Olympus and rescue the gods from a certain death.
Along the way, Emily and her companions will fight monsters, run from a government agency that is prepared to dissect Pegasus, and even fly above the Manhattan skyline—all as part of a quest to save Olympus before time runs out.
Hmm, in between 3 and 4 stars I think...Whatever I'll just give it 4 stars, Since I have no idea how to give half stars..
This book tells the story of Emily who is thrown into a world full of Roman myths and all of that. Since I love greek and Roman mythology and stuff like that, this sounded like a book I would enjoy, and I definitely did. It was just so full of Action and I really liked that.
The gods were written about more humanlike then I am used to from my beloved Percy Jackson series. They are just so different, and sometimes different is a good thing and sometimes not. In this book it was mostly a bad one. Maybe it's just because I am used to the way they are presented in Percy Jackson, and not really liking the change. That is probably very likely.
The other myths I found really cool though especially Pegasus. Which is a good thing since Pegasus is kind of important in this book, and probably the next ones as well.
This book was really fast paced, and sometimes it was too fast paced. In the beginning where Emily meets Pegasus she starts of totally not believing and then 5 minuts later she is running down in her apartment to get a WINGED HORSE food, and actually believing that it's a winged horse! For real? You believe in the myths like that? The horse didn't even explain a thing, or anything like that Pegasus just stood there, and Emily believed in the myths..
All together I think this is a very enjoyable novel, very fast paced light adventure. It has myths and that is basically what makes me like this book. It is also rather clear that it is written for children, and is a good fun adventure read if you have just read some really heavy book.
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