Hermes And The Horse With Wings

My 7 year old ate this series up! He is an advanced reader, and I was having trouble finding books to hold his interest, and this series caught his attention, and had him hooked! He is eagerly awaiting the newest volumes release.

My son raced through this series. Loved it. Made him want to know more about the Greek Gods.

Great series

Son loves the series

We finished this book in 2 evenings, like every other book in this series. This is one of our fav series. They are fun and exciting. I have to gauge where to stop reading them to prevent over-excitement and cliffhangers before bedtime. Really fun book. My only complaint (and this is general to the series) is that I feel it's slightly male-biased. I say all of this as a mother of a boy. I know there's a series that's more tailored towards the female goddesses and we'll try that one soon. However, this series seems tailored for general audiences. I would really like if the female goddesses were featured more and weren't caricatures of female stereotypes (i.e., Hera is bossy, Demeter and Hestia are kind and caring, Athena is bookish, etc). I know that these depictions are consistent with Greek mythology, but the author has been more flexible with departing from these depictions with male characters like Poseidon (who is often depicted as vengeful and bad-tempered) and Hades (stern). Hades and Poseidon are fun and appealing in the series (telling jokes, being 'bros'). I appreciate that there has been character development with Hera and she's been given more of a leadership role in recent books, but let's have Zeus be best friends/ joke with one of his sisters, too. Similarly, I wish the author didn't promote boy-boy, girl-girl friendships as has happened in a number of instances throughout the series. I do like that missions are split by skills and male and female characters usually play important roles in the quests.