Oh My Gods! - Cooke & Fitzpatrick
Karen, a typical girl from New Jersey, must move to Greece to live with her estranged Father, Zed. The school is strange, Zed is the mayor and the principal, and everything is hard to process until the obvious kicks in. Her father is Zeus, she's a demigoddess, and her peers at the school are Greek gods and goddesses, reborn as teens (to keep immortality novel). Then someone starts turning students to stone, but who could it be? Despite being Greek gods that know all about Mt. Olympus, the teens are totally stymied and even think Karen might be responsible. They go to find the culprit, who is obviously Medusa. This is strictly for children. Although the dash of Greek myths might be nice for kids to learn, the myths are twisted and revamped, so not really all that helpful. The conceit of the story is wholly unoriginal, and not well told. The pacing is odd and jarring, with scenes that cut into the drama, or go on oddly long, or apparently are meant to be dramatic tension but go nowhere. The mystery is paper-thin, and the world-building even thinner (the god-teens have flip phones and pagers, for some reason, but Artemis also suddenly understand how the gorgons' DNA can reverse the petrification — deus ex machina, indeed). Why this took two authors is beyond me. The art is unexceptional. [2]
