In Artemis the Loyal, Artemis is upset that the Olympics, an athletic competition that brings together mortals and immortals from all over, are a boys-only thing. She crusades to start a girls-only Olympics, while dealing with a fight with her twin, Apollo. He thinks she's overprotective sometimes. The campus is also in a stir because two giant twin brothers are competing in the games. So the book is filled with conflicts, all of which get resolved by the end, of course.
Hera is a major player in this book, leading up to the announcement at the end: she and Zeus are getting married. She's also instrumental in Zeus's agreeing to the girl games.
Medusa also proves an unlikely ally.
And Artemis deals with a newfound crush on Actaeon, a mortal boy she briefly (only briefly) turns into a stag.
I liked Artemis a lot better in this book, but it still drives me nuts that she's such a poor dog owner. I love dogs. I have three. But I HATE people that don't properly train their pets.
Medusa is a triplet, but her two older (by minutes) sisters are immortal and she isn't. Their parents clearly prefer the immortal pair. She was picked on a lot in her younger years. And her sisters treat her poorly, too. So she's got a pretty rough life. She has to study very hard to stay at MOA, something she tries to keep a secret. She has 3 big dreams: immortality, popularity and Poseidon.
Throughout the story, Medusa learns that you can do a lot without immortality. Not gonna lie though, there are a lot of difficult things she has to endure because she's mortal at an immortal school and I totally get where she's coming from. She earns popularity in her own way and takes steps towards having real friends. She also discovers that Poseidon isn't all he's cracked up to be and ends up finding a much more suitable crush, Dionysus.
I really love this new Medusa. She was a boring mean girl before, but she's got more depth than most of the characters, who really do have it easy with all their magic powers and such. She's got a different point of view on a lot of things, kind of like Vidia from Disney Fairies. She's not all nicey-nice girly-girl. The incident with little Andromeda is a good case of this. Because she had big dreams and was treated harshly, she wants to be honest with the little girl and have her not get her hopes up. She just doesn't have the people skills to pull this off without upsetting the kid. But she meant well!
I'm looking forward to reading the newest book, which just arrived today, because Medusa's the star again.
I'm also looking forward to Amphitrite's book even more now, because Amphitrite was one of the "kindergarten buddies" from Medusa's book. Did she grow up magically or what? Probably Holub forgot she used that name already. (ETA: She totally comes up with a fix for this that works. It's pretty skilled.)
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