Nothing spectacular, but certainly needed to move the story along. It just ended up being a typical second book in a series. Now, don't go thinking that I didn't enjoy this book. I had such high hopes, which has left me a tiny bit disappointed. Yes, this book took a twist that I didn't expect, but it still ended up being pretty predictable. I was right, even if we don't know what his role is yet or not. At the end of Sweet Venom, I knew there was something important about Thane's disappearance.

I am going to start by saying most of my original predictions for this book turned out to be true. I didn't like the cliffhanger ending but am lucky to have book 3 ready to finish the story.Recommended for young adults who like mythology and urban fantasy.

I liked that Gretchen got an attitude adjustment when she entered the Abyss. The girls need to learn about their various gifts, rescue their missing mentors, and decide which of the boys around them is on their side. Greer is the poor little rich girl who has every physical advantage and absentee parents. Gretchen is the one who ran away from an abusive home life and has been fighting the monsters who slip through the cracks for years. Grace is the computer nerd with a loving family. The third group wants them to open the portal and act as its guardians.The story is told in alternate chapters by each of the girls who are very different people. There is a group that wants them dead after they seal the portal and a group that wants them dead after they open the portal. There are three factions who are interested in them with two of the factions wanting them dead.

They were reunited at sixteen to find out that they were descendants of Medusa and heirs to a prophecy that keeps mythological creatures contained in the Abyss. Triplets Gretchen, Grace, and Greer were separated at birth and raised in separate families and circumstances.

Sweet shadows tera lynn childs