And some good old characters next to new introduced ones. My guessings (below) were wrong, but I see where the myth is taken from. Wow, this is interesting!!! Turned out that we'll get a very good, classic Goddess Girls books (Not too much crammed and not too thin). Her chiton is saffron, I thought, like described in the beginning of the book! ***Why is Eos soooooo similar in her looks to Aphrodite? It was a little bit too pink (see cover). In a nutshell: A great book of Eos rhododaktylos!!! (aaaaand of course, the blushing part, this is really charming and suitable for the dawn!). Thinking about the context, the friendship status is really okay, although I still can't understand why the virgin goddesses Athena and Artemis had crushes in the past, and now it's so bland. This is great because both books inlcude elements I really adore and love (:Īgain, Tithonus is great. **Why must I think of the Penderwicks at last? Perhaps because it's my only other middle grade novel this year- but I would say that there are at least coincidental similarites. *Hyperion, Eos's Dad is sweet, too -I love the family dynamics in this book! * I'm just a little bit disappointed that we couldn't see more of Selene apart from the moon and because she's the older sister, we won't get a book with her as a character. Somehow it feels like a last book for me - there's not a new cover in it. I love the many rhymes and word games in the book and it's completely flawless. Of course, I'm a little bit biased towards my favorite goddess in Greek mythology - but I think saying this is not prejudiced. For me, this book is a top goddess girls book and one of my favorite installments, together with Persephone the Phoney, Hestia the Invisible and Medusa the Mean. It has the right balance between seeing old characters at MOA and new ones at new places. Cute characters -especially Tithonus, some lessons about life, finding yourself and the topic immortality - and a gorgeous dawn cover and back layout. Of course, I 'll love the book and I think it was a really clever retelling.

Eos the Lighthearted by Joan Holub