GODDESS GIRLS 15

Goddess Girls #15 is titled Aphrodite the Fair. She shares PoV chapters with Ares and it's the story of Eris and the For the Fairest contest. Eris is Ares' older sister and apparently she was never invited to MOA. He told her it was because Zeus didn't allow siblings to attend together. She's the goddess of discord and strife, so she tends to get kicked out of her schools. It's happened again and this time, she hears about Ares' birthday party from Hera in the Immortal Marketplace, so she decides to crash, bringing along with her the enchanted For the Fairest trophy. Predictably, Eris causes huge problems at MOA. She gets Zeus to hold an academic contest, pitting Team Athena against Team Aphrodite and that leads to all sorts of fights between friends. Finally, our valiant students, who have realized what she's up to, are able to "convince" her to end the contest. She decides to return home of her own accord though, because there's a boy there she likes and he's told her that the principal will let her come back, because she's helped with repairs to the school. (The roof caved in because of a contest idea she had to build snowmen on it.)

Eris is an interesting character. I really wish she had PoV chapters of her own, because I would like to see her motivations and how she really feels. She's a bully sometimes and I hate how she treats her brother and Aphrodite, but she improves by the end. You can tell she's genuinely sad that animals dislike her. And I find it fascinating that when she feels powerful, she literally grows. She gets taller and less scrawny. Hades is probably the closest we have to a regular goth character, but I'd really like to see another goth added to the mix. A female one that can get in style conflicts with Aphrodite, but still remain friendly. Eris has the right look, but she's too negative to want around all the time. Unlike Medusa, you can't really redeem Eris. She's the goddess of two negative things. I wish they'd add in Nyx or Hecate. Either would work as goth and they'd work fine as dark "good girls." Or maybe morally ambiguous, in Hecate's case.

No complaints about the cover this time around, although an envious Hera and Athena in the background would have been pretty cool.