Friday, December 28, 2018

#Review - Spartan Promise by Jennifer Estep #YALit #Fantasy

Series: Mythos Academy: Colorado # 2
Format: E-Book, 293 pages
Release Date: January 15th 2019
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Source: Author
Genre: Young Adult / Urban Fantasy

Hunting for the bad guys has never been so dangerous . . .

My name is Rory Forseti, and I attend the Colorado branch of Mythos Academy, a school of warrior kids, powerful artifacts, and mythological monsters.

I’m a student, a fierce Spartan warrior, and a member of Team Midgard, a group of kids and adults tasked with stopping the evil Reapers of Chaos. There is one Reaper I’m determined to hunt down above all others: Covington, the man who murdered my parents.

So when the Midgard gets a tip that Covington is going to try to steal a dangerous artifact, I’m ready to fight. But the situation is far more complicated than it seems, and the Reapers aren’t my only enemies.

I’ll have to use all my Spartan strength and skills to survive this. And even then, it might be my blood that gets spilled .




Spartan Promise is the second installment in author Jennifer Estep's Mythos Academy: Colorado series. Protagonist Rory Forseti attends Mythos Academy Colorado. It is a school for warrior kids, mythological monsters, and artifacts that summon destructive monsters. She, like her cousin Gwen Frost, is also a Champion for the Goddess Sigyn. She joined  Team Midgard (an exclusive group of students and adults tasked with battling the new reapers of chaos) after discovering some secrets that changed the way she looked at her parents who were former Reapers. 

The Reapers of Chaos are led by Covington, the former librarian of the Mythos Academy who wants to bring about his own idea of a new world order without the Protectorate around to stand in his way. Rory has become an important piece of Covington's evil plans, for which Rory has no plans of ever giving into his desires. Rory has to bite and scratch and fight and fight some more in order to prevent herself from becoming a mindless Reaper who will do anything that Covington asks her to do.

With Covington and his Reapers going after artifact after artifact and seemingly able to stay 3 steps ahead of Rory and her friends, this leads to the inevitable bloodshed, fighting, action, and yes, even some romance. Rory hasn't always had the kind of friends that she has now. In fact, she pretty much only had her Aunt to understand what she was going through thanks to the misconceptions of what she really knew about her parents and what they did. 

So, yes, I am happy to see that perhaps that will be changing in the future. The author added another interesting character to this series, Professor Dalaja, who has her own secrets and skill set. Rory's teammates include Zoe Wayland (Valkyrie), Mateo Solis (Roman), Ian Hunter (Viking), as well as Hiro Takeda (Samurai) and Rory's Aunt Rachel Maddox (Spartan). There is a brief guest appearance by a character from the original Mythos Academy series, but I won't spoil it by saying who it is. It's apparent that the author intends to continue her crossover between her series, and the inevitable FOOD scenes which has me drooling every damn time!



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