Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard
My review
4/5 stars
Helen has just moved in with her father and step-siblings, and they are Greek gods in disguise so it's kinda complicated. She has to navigate life as a teenager while trying to protect her family's secrets.
I enjoyed this for what it was and felt it was perfectly pitched for it's intended teenage audience. It was the right balance of teen angst, real drama and humour.
The concept for the story was interesting and felt like a plausible take on how Greek gods might handle modern life if given the chance. The story was quite light on Greek mythology, and I would have enjoyed a bit more of it being laced through the story, but I appreciate that I may be placing an adult viewpoint on a teen / young adult book.
I found the story very easy to read and managed to read it cover to cover in one day. It was a fairly predictable plot, but I found that I didn't really mind.
Book blurb
Life as a half-mortal teenager should be epic.
But, for Helen Thomas, it's tragic.
She's just moved in with her dorky dad and self-absorbed older siblings - who just happen to be Greek gods, living incognito in London!
It's hard not to feel inferior when your older sister is Aphrodite, queen of beauty and massive star of social media. Not to mention introducing a boy to your dad when he's really Zeus.
Between keeping her family's true identities secret, trying to impress her new friends, and meeting Marco, an actually cute boy, Helen's stress levels are higher than Mount Olympus.
Especially as it seems like someone is determined to expose the family secret and have them banished from the mortal world.
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