Wings of Olympus: 1

My daughter adores this book! She loves Kallie George and was totally captivated by this book too!Get it, you’ll love it!

Captivating from the beginning and hard to put down. Perfect read aloud for grade four or five and novel for kids up to grade seven I would say.Would recommend!

Wings of Olympus is a beautiful story of a young girl chosen by the gods to race a winged horse on Olympus. It was a delight to read, and a fun story. I would recommend it for girls ages about 8-11. There are themes of love, friendship, honesty, and hard work. The relationship between Pippa and Zeph is sweet, and fun to watch it grow. Interesting how that affects the race as well.I love the Heartwood series (highly recommend them!), and this had a lot of the same gentle feel.The art is wonderful! Both the cover and pictures inside are a treat.There were a couple scary parts, like the lost former children riders in the forest. It's brief but pretty spooky.My personal disappointment was a few intriguing elements that were never built on! The introduction to the story gives a picture of the Fates, and rather than a thread being cut, it breaks and is tied again. I was immediately caught and thought, "Ooohh, how will that play into the story!" But it doesn't! I'm still confused by that. It seemed important, but it wasn't. I also wished for a bit more tying up at the end. She'd made these friends (and rivals) throughout the story, but suddenly she's away from them, and we don't get a picture of their ending or even much of hers. I didn't like Aphrodite at all, and she's the goddess of love! I felt like she would have behaved far differently.Still, a wonderful story. After my 9 year old reads it I'll add her review as well. I think she'll really like it.

Nice read with an interesting spin on myths. Looking forward to the next one.

I hated that she was banished, this book was dissapionting and had no structural value. I think the ending could have been happier. considering that she was banished and her horse lost its wings.