I think that this book was very interesting if you like greek myths and want to know more about Hades kingdom the underworld where all of the dead live.
This story is about Charlotte and her cousin Zee. Zee comes to stay with Charlotte and her family. It's been a few weeks since Zee's arrival when everyone at there Middle Schcool starts getting sick, including Charlottes best friend Maddy. Zee soon finds out that everyone is sick and he knows the reason why. When Charlotte finds out the secret that Zee is hiding they go on an epic journey into the underworld. Will they save the kids and make it out alive? Or will there plan fall to pieces and they will be stuck in the Underworld forever? ( )

Mythology and mystery mixed together in a story that did not keep my attention, though it may be because I've already read the Percy jJackson books and they were very good. ( )

Charlotte Mielswetski (Meals. Wet. Ski.) is a very plucky, sympathetic young lady who has to save the world from Philenecron, a character from the Greek Underworld who is trying to steal children's shadows to make an army. Charlotte and her cousin Zee have to stop them with brains, courage, and a little help from their friends.

This is apparently the first volume in the Cronus chronicles (not to be confused with The Kronos chronicles which is also currently underway and makes me wish people communicated more about these things) and also not to be confused with the Percy Jackson series, which like this series uses the "what if Greek myths were real?" tagline. This is not to say that Miss Anne Ursu is unoriginal -- no, indeed, I quite liked her book. It's not a first person narrative, but is written with that cadence and syntax typical of the American teenager's internal monologue. For that reason, some people will not be able to stand reading it, but as it sounds exactly how I thought when I was 13, I find it laugh-out-loud funny. That said, this is a darker picture of the Olympians than we find with Percy Jackson, and a more mundane picture too. The heroine (it's a girl this time, though she has a co-hero -- her cousin -- who is a boy so I'm not sure it totally counts girl-power-wise) is a human, with no divine blood and no special skills. She does have a few things going for her though, including a pretty spiffy cat (it's just a cat, and yet not, but I can't tell you more because it would give it away -- but don't worry, you'll figure it out pretty quickly) and she lives in Minnesota, which seems an odd fit for a story involving the Greek gods, but it works, and I like it. In fact, I really liked this whole book. It's very me. I kind of wish I had written it, but I am not that good. So, you know, read it. :)

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