It’s the last day before school starts again and Gwen and her friends are at the Crius Coliseum for a school assignment, when the museum is attacked. A group of Reapers wreck havoc with the displayed artifacts and kill students and staff alike. Leader of the pack is the creepy Reaper girl, the one who killed Gwens mother.

With ancient weapons from the exhibition Gwen, Daphne, Carson and Logan are determined to fight for their lives and those of the others at the museum. Or die trying. Surprisingly, as sudden as the attack started it ends with the surviving Reapers running away. But not without leaving a piece of paper behind that Reaper girl accidently dropped in her fight with Gwen.
A map, as it turns out, of the library of antiquities. Obviously the Reapers of Chaos are convinced, that Gwens mother hid the Helheim Dagger, the last item they need to free their imprisoned god Loki, somewhere in the enormous library. Gwen, as Nikes champion, is supposed to find the Dagger and keep it safe, before their enemies can get their hands on it. And they will come for the dagger, that much is perfectly clear.

Even more than finding the blasted Dagger (and prevent a second chaos war) the whole Logan situation is occupying Gwens mind. What are they? Friends? A couple? What?

School has barely started again and the Gypsy already has a lot of stuff to deal with. The pissy mood of her best friend, Reapers of chaos sneaking around, a mysterious dagger hidden god’s know where, the threat of Loki the trickster god breaking free and a very large lady wolf living in her dorm room are just some of them.
Nothing out of the ordinary than at Mythos Academy.

Evil forces are in motion and if they want it or not, a war is coming and Gwen and her friends need to stick together and be prepared.


It was about a year ago that I read the last Mythos Academy book and I still can basically remember most of the events. But obviously Jennifer Estep isn’t so sure about the ability of her readers to actually do that because her course of action is repeating. Again. Just about everything. The question I’m asking myself is why??? Because she thinks her readers are braindead? I certainly hope not.
Because the book needs more pages? Hell, if I know!
Also her fondness of special words or phrases is nothing you can easily miss. If anyone mentions “eyes the soft shade of twilight” ever again I’m going to scream. Very loud!

But believe it or not, I actually liked the book, ha!

I liked the way the characters of Gwen and her friends and allies develop over time. They have room to grow and change. And the general plot isn’t half bad :)
Finally, she and Logan are able to sort out some of the things standing between them and become a real couple. I hope it stays that way. There are a very few things I dislike more than a constant come together-brake up-make up again-brake up again for stupid reasons - storyline. Wait and see, I guess.

The reader learns more about Gwens gypsy gift and what she’s able to do with it. And supposed to do in the long run (scary much!). Sometimes Gwen is a little slow on the uptake and the reader (= me, who’s got it all figured out already) want’s to slap her on the forehead to start the fu .. to start thinking. I guess it’s the authors way of trying to keep up the suspense for a little longer or something.
A real plus is Nott, the Fenrir wolf Gwen met in the last book.

FinalIy, I was debating with myself if I want to give this book 3 or 4 stars. Is the constant repetition reason enough for me to reduce the rating. Yes, it is, because it slows down the plot and is just useless and unnecessary! And it pisses me off. There.

I’m going to read book #4 “Crimson Frost” anyway, because the story and the characters got potential and in the myriad of fantasy novels out there it’s absolutely above average I’d say.