Review by
Emily
Review of Pandora Gets Vain
After unleashing the seven greatest evils on the world, Pandy only has six months to recapture them and get them back in their box. After catching jealousy, she and her friends are off to the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria to get the next evil, vanity. On the way, they're helped by the young poet Homer and a mysterious carnival leader called Wang Chun Lo. Time is running out, and the vindictive goddess Hera is doing what she can to stop them while Pandy's father Prometheus and his friends try to help her in any way they can.
This book still has a lot of Greek mythology but also adds some Egyptian gods into the mix, which makes me wonder if each book in this series will include some local mythology from the places the girls go. I actually would have liked a bit more Egyptian mythology in this book, but I did like that the Greek gods from the first book were still active and involved. This book suffers a bit from the usual problem of quest stories, which is that the characters travel for a lot of it and things do happen to them but some of it seems kind of like filler until they get actually get to where they're trying to go. But these books do build on each other and minor things from the first one turned out to be useful in the second, so maybe some of this filler stuff will turn out to be useful later on. This series definitely has an overarching plot, and I like that story threads are picked up and developed in the later book. Pandy's next quest is to capture laziness in the Atlas Mountains in northwestern Africa, and I'm interested to see how her next adventure will develop her story.
