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Pegasus And The Fight For Olympus (2011)

by Kate O'Hearn(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0340997419 (ISBN13: 9780340997413)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Hodder Children's Books

series

Pegasus

review 1: The characters in this book were Emily, Joel, Paelen, Pegasus, Cupid, Zeus, Dange, Apollo, Diana, Chysaor, the Gorgons, and the Nirads. Emily is at Olympus training to control her powers so she doesn’t hurt people. One day after she was done training, she heard that there had been another Nirad invasion. She figured that it would be a perfect time to sneak out and find her dad. Emily, Paelen, Joel, Pegasus, and Cupid sneak out of Olympus and travel back to earth. After being hungry, they find an abandon restaurant, and Paelen makes everyone some food. Paelen, Joel, and Cupid sneak out to the CRU facility nearby to rescue Emily’s dad and capture some CRU agents for interrogation. They successfully found Emily’s dad and captured the agents, but Joel was captured... more by some escaping Nirads in the process. Paelen and Cupid along with their prisoners travel back to the restaurant only to discover that Emily and Pegasus had been kidnapped, and the restaurant had been burned to ashes. Dange, an orange Nirad differen from all the violent Nirads that gave Nirads their bad reputation, kidnapped Emily and Pegasus and took them to the Nirad world through the Solar Stream. Once in the Nirad world, Emily noticed that it was the Gorgons threatening the Nirads that made the Nirads violent and made them attack Olympus. Paelen was able to contact Zeus and all the other gods for help against the Nirads. When all hope was lost, Emily discovered a secret in which she could melt stone. She was able to melt herself free from the Gorgons’ paralyzing stare and destroy them. Then she helped free all of the Nirads that were turned to stone. In conclusion, this was a story about friends coming together for a good cause. I really enjoyed this book because I enjoyed the morals, and I enjoy learning about Greek mythology. I would highly recommend this book to my friends because most of my friends also enjoy books about adventure and Greek mythology.
review 2: It was an ok/good book, but definitely had nothing on the first book. My first problem: Emily, the supposed main character did practically nothing until the end of the book. The main male characters (paelen,Cupid and Joel) did practically everything, leaving Emily behind because she was "going to atract attention, or "it wasn't safe". I found this very annoying because in the first book was very much the "I can do everything" girl and now shes content with doing nothing. Also, if she's an Olympian now, shouldn't she only eat nectar and ambrosia? Emily is a rather idiotic character who realizes, or knows nothing. I mean when faced with the choice to destroy Jupiter or let Pegasus and Joel (BFF) be turned to stone, when she knows that she can turn people back, she chooses to destroy Jupiter!!! She us also very weak, emotionally, and half of her finagle seems yo be sobbing, crying,screaming and whimpering.Second:the flame. The flame is a power inside Emily. Supposedly, she can reach inside her and summon the power of the sun. Aren't Apollo or Helios the gods of the sun and therefore, shouldn't they have control over the power of the sun? I don't see how you can just reach inside you and have lasers shooting out of your fingers, like Emily does.; I just have a hard time imagining that flames can shoot out of Emily's fingers, and that pulling the power in and making it more focused takes so much concentration, but maybe I t's just me. I also don't see how flames/lasers can cause so much damage.Third: the villains. The nirads, who are supposed to be the villains, finally have a motive, but when that motive is realized, it is also realized that they aren't actually villains. The evil gorgans have a motive (to avenge their sister, medusa) but it is reviled that they actually want to take over the world... BUT WHY?!?! The ending: when paelen and Joel return to Olympus, they find it deserted, but Jupiter and the rest of the Olympians are alive...WHERE DID THEY GO?!?!The rest: the writing was so undetailed, undescriptive and hard to picture that even me, with my over active imagination had trouble imagining what was going on. The plot was hasty and unimaginitive, the characters where dull, and lifeless, then mess unoriginal and boring...You might say that I'm being very harsh for a grade school book (and let's admit I'm being VERY harsh) but this is a book for fith-sixth graders and the deserve good, well edited books, and this I'm sad to say is.not one of them less

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