Thursday, December 17, 2020

PANDORA 3


For Pandora's third adventure, they find themselves headed to Jbel Toubkal, which is the highest mountain in the Atlas range. 

Pandy is separated from everyone else, gets some help from Dionysus and his team of crazy squirrels, and meets two young boys who accompany her for most of the rest of the book. 

Alcie, Iole and Homer end up being taken captive and find themselves on a ship newly-captained by the same guy that was the captain of the ship to Egypt. He recognizes them and puts them in his care. While onboard, Homer works for the captain while the girls mostly cry about Pandy, thinking she's dead. They then have a run-in with one of the lesser evils: Misery. 

Nearer the end, once everyone is reunited on Jbel Toubkal, Pandora has to get Laziness, which exists in the form of an ugly nose hair on her uncle Atlas. Homer is one of the men baked waist-down into a column so he can help support the heavens because Atlas is now too lazy to do so. Pandora's father Prometheus is there in disguise along with Hermes, who's helping him out as much as he can. Prometheus sees Pandora in action and realizes what his daughter is capable of. 

The book ends with our foursome getting on a ship again, bound for Thessaly where they're after Lust next. 

I found this one not quite as strong as the second. The first is slow going because it has to set the story, but the second was non-stop new characters and action and of course I also favor Egypt. This third book is good, but it dragged on in a few places. I still love all the characters and the storylines though. 

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