Shelly's Book Blog

Pandora Gets Vain, the second in Carolyn Hennesy's series about the young woman from Greek mythology who allowed all the evils of the world to escape, was entertaining. In each book in the series, Pandora (her friends call her Pandy) has to track down one of seven evils and put it back in her jar. In this adventure Pandy and her friends meet Homer, a big, strong young man who likes to write poetry (yes, I suspect he is THE Homer). He helps them to overcome the various dangers that are part of finding Vanity. I really like that Pandy's friend Alcie curses using the names of fruits: "Pom-OH-granates! Great Apollo!" she exclaims at one point.

This series may be a read-alike for the Percy Jackson series, but probably more for girls. I think that, because I started with book 2 instead of book 1, I may not have enjoyed it as much as I could have.