This one introduces Calliope, the youngest Muse. She's one of the newer students at MOA and she struggles with being treated like a baby by her older sisters. (That's her fave sister, Terpsichore, on the cover with her.)
Unfortunately, I was frustrated through most of the book. Calliope has no trouble inspiring others, but she comes up with so many ideas, that she procrastinates constantly on her big architecture project. She's also singing in a music festival with her sisters and bombs it. And why? Because she's so distracted trying to figure out which goddessgirl to ask to be her roommate! I could see if she had a legitimate issue, but her constantly being distracted by this petty thing annoyed the crap out of me.
The good thing about her "trying out" different girls is that we get some screentime for a lot of the older characters, like Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis and Medusa. With all these new girls constantly being added, we haven't spent as much time with the original cast.
Also annoying is her crush on Homer, who's just an obnoxious overly ambitious idiot most of the time. Thankfully, she gets over that, comes up with a brilliant architecture project that wins the class contest and ends up being actually created, and she finds a perfect roommate in Amphitrite, as both girls come from big families.
She did end up winning me over at the end. Why? Because her architecture project...is a MUSEUM.
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