SWEET VENOM

BY: TERA LYNN CHILDS

published by: Katherine TegenDate of publication: September 6,

2011

Emily Coumanis

Three sisters, Greer, Gretchen and Grace, separated by birth are led to each other in San Francisco and they learn about their forebears. They learn about their role in life and why they see things that no one else can. The three girls were born as monster hunters and were separated for their safety. They are pulled back together by a force to sends the monsters back to their world.

Introduction

PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST Greer:

Dirty blonde hair and grayish eyes

Has a great family but didn’t know she was adopted

Gretchen: Been hunting monsters for 4

years Looks the same as Greer

and Grace Grace:

Looks like Gretchen and Greer

Has a great parents that adopted her and a brother who was adopted as well

The monsters: Mythological creatures Being released from their

realm to capture a huntress examples:

Minotaur Cinotaur Monkey-faced monster

Sneaking into the human realm in abundances

Protagonists & AntagonistsGrace, Gretchen, and

Greer The Monsters

The 3 sisters were separated at birth until they were drawn back together to embrace their fate. They are reunited to find, fight, and send the monsters back to their realm. The monsters were escaping into the human realm to capture a huntress so that they could be freed. The rule was originally that only one monster could fit through the seal at once but now a majority of the monsters were coming through at the same time.

Grace’s brother who is also adopted and plays soccer. He becomes really good friends with a guy Milo. Through out the story Thane always happens to be in the right place at the right time to watch out for his sister. He knows something is going on but all he can do is ask if she’s ok.

Thane

Milo is Thane’s friend who develops a crush on Grace. He takes her and Thane out to show them around San Francisco. Him and Thane were with Grace when she saw her first monster but they couldn’t see it. He thought she was just sick from the restaurant he took her to being she was a vegetarian.

Milo

Ursula Ursula took in

Gretchen when she was the age of 12 and began training her to hunt monsters. She had collected a lot of research on the monsters she had hunted. She never told Gretchen about her sisters. Ursula left home to do some of her work and had been captured by the monsters but had teleported to Grace and told her to find her sister and tell Gretchen she missed her very much.

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Three sisters are descendants of medusa and are reunited at the age of 16 to live their fate. Their fate is to fight monsters and send them back to their realm. Grace is one who just moved to San Francisco and has a younger brother, they’re both adopted. Gretchen was the first to begin fighting monsters at the age of 12 and has to train Grace. Greer was the last to be united with her sisters. She never even knew she was adopted and had her life on track with a boyfriend and everything. Sweet Venom is one of a series and is based off of Greek Mythology.

Three sisters are separated at birth and then reunited to fight mythological monsters. Grace always knew she was adopted, Gretchen never had a great family and was taken in by Ursula at age 12, and Greer was a sister that Gretchen and Grace never expected to find. Sweet Venom is based on Greek mythology with a twist.

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What I think…

I couldn’t put this book down. It was totally different and something that could never happen. Having my family being part of the Greek culture reading a story based on Greek Mythology made it even more interesting. Another point that drew me to this story was that the protagonists were adopted. I’m glad I chose this book because even though I had no idea what it was about it turned out to be a great story.