Oh.My.Gods by Tera Lynn Childs

Title: Here	Loved it	Graded
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Speak
Elements: Greek mythology
Series: Book 1 of a duo

A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods.

When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient history. Now she must attend the uberexclusive academy, where admission depends on pedigree, namely, ancestry from Zeus, Hera, and other Greek gods.

That's right, they're real, not myth, and their teen descendants are like the classical heroes - supersmart and superbeautiful with a few superpowers. And now they're on her track team! Armed only with her Nikes and the will to win, Phoebe races to find her place among the gods.

If Phoebe Castro can keep her grades up and have another stellar cross-country season, her dream of attending USC with her best friends is only a track scholarship away. She’s made all her plans, so it’s a complete shock when her mom announces she’s marrying a mysterious stranger and moving them half-way around the world—to Greece.

Phoebe’s stuck on a secret island in the Aegean attending the super-exclusive Academy, where her new stepfather is the headmaster and the kids are anything but your average students—they are descendants of the Greek gods, super powers included. That’s right, Greek gods are no myth! If Phoebe thought high school was hard, she knows this is going to be mortal misery.

Securing that scholarship seems like Phoebe’s only ticket out of Greece, but training and maintaining her grades will be grueling, even without a sabotaging stepsister from Hades and a gorgeous guy—what a god!—who just might be her Achilles heel. One thing is for sure—summoning the will to win and find her place among the gods could be Phoebe’s toughest course yet.

Oh.My.Gods is a fun, fresh venture into Greek mythology. It had a nice flow to it, the characters were totally faboosh, and the plot line was definitely unique. Gods and mythological characters are portrayed at their best, from what little we read of them. We even get to read a cameo of The Apple of Discord!

We're introduced to Phoebe flushed with happiness after she wins a race, and then we're presented with the contrast right after that when her mum announces their move to Greece.

Personally, I thought Phoebe's mum is very irresponsible. It's contradicting; she's supposed to be a therapist (yknow, someone who dwells on stuff, and thinks and talks about things through nonstop) and then out of the blue, after a week long visit to Greece to visit her late husband's family, she comes back with a new husband and announces to Phoebe that hey! They're moving to Greece, halfway across the world, just because she got marrried. Sorry Phoebe, but you definitely have to come with.

SAY WHAT?!
O_O

That was my reaction for the first part of the book. By the way she was acting, I couldn't imagine Phoebe's mum as someone motherly at all. It seemed like Phoebe was the one who takes care of her. I'm not sure if that's what Tera Lynn Childs wants the character to be portrayed, but that's how I felt. Her stepfather too seemed a little insensitive in the beginning, but I suppose I can chalk that up to honeymoon jitters.

Then I got over that, because heck yeah! There is definitely much more to the story than Phoebe's new parents' romance. Soon after, they arrive at the secret island (which I'm not going to name, because it's you know, sekrit) and that's when the fun really begins. Phoebe finds out that her stepfather and stepsister are decendents of gods, along with everyone else at the school she's attending. Be it faculty or students, all of them are descendents of gods, with superpowers to boot!

Phoebe is someone without a god in her lineage, so she's immediately labelled an outcast: a nothos, or in less polite terms, a kako. In a place where people click together based on their lineage, it's tough for Phoebe to make friends, especially since there are no other nothos there. Lucky for her, two of the students, Nicole and Theo, don't follow the social norm and they become fast friends.

The ending is predictable (but who cares? :D)and seemed a bit rushed somehow. Things seemed to be wrapped up too neatly, with the exception of Nicole's story. The part about Griffin: I'll say this once: Phoebe was too easy on him. I was kind of weirded out to see that their relationship didn't progress much in OMG, and yet they got together? Odd.

It was just so easy to enjoy OMG! The characters just seemed to come to life, each of them full to the brim with personality and candor. My favourite character has to be Theo, Phoebe's friend. I can't list down the ways I love him, he's just so awesome and lovable! As for Phoebe's other friend, Nicole, I can't wait to find out the mystery about her in the sequel, Goddess Boot Camp.