Goddess Bootcamp

The Bookworm Says....YES!!!!! Goddess Bootcamp by Tera Lynn Childs was a great book. It is a sequel to Oh My Gods, and they were both excellent. Phoebe Castro is enjoying her summer, before she has to enter level 12. You see, Phoebe lives on a small Greek island of Serfopoula. Se is also the goddess Nikes great grand-daughter. All of the people on the island are part god, maybe not as closely related as Phoebe, but still related. She is beginning training in the morning with her dreamy boyfriend Griffin for the Pythian Games trials. The Pythian Games are like the Olympics, and she has to try out for the team. Phoebe also has troubles controlling her powers. Past incidents include: thinking about the ocean, and making it so her serious stepdad Damian was no longer in his office in a suit, but outside her door in a bathing suit. Damian gets a call from the gods saying she must take a test, and pass it or else... So he makes the only reasonable decision. Phoebe should be sent to Goddess Boot Camp. On the first day of camp, she is horrified when she steps inside. The room is full of 10 year olds. (Phoebe is 17) She thinks it can't get any worse, but then the counselors walk in. Adara Spencer, Griffins ex, and her enemy. Stella Petrolas, her evil stepsister. Then, a ragged, rebel boy named Xander. She struggles through camp, and suspects Griffin of cheating on her with Adara. One day, she is at home with Stella, and the doorbell rings. There is a note to Phoebe with a sequence that her friend identified as a call number for the library. She went to the library, and the book is in the secret collections. This book is about her dads trial at Mt. Olympus that got him killed. The librarian agrees to show her, but the book is missing. Later, Phoebe receives an email about the book, but when she goes to print it, it is blank. She goes to the schools computer geek, and asks him to find the sender. He is unable to, so she does what the email says. "Go to the courtyard at 12:00pm". She goes, and it is Damian. He gets her the book, but she chooses not to read it, afraid of what it says. A few days later at the Pythian Games, something strange happens. She is in third place, and confident because the top 3 get on the team. All of the sudden, a brunette girl shows up in front of her. No matter how hard she tries, she can't catch the lead. When her feet hit the finish line, she is heavily embraced. The brunette was an apparition. That was her test. She passed. And she made the Pythian Games team. This was a great day. I would recommend this book to almost anybody, but especially if you are interested in Greek history. But- I would advise reading Oh My Gods first.