Oh. My. Gods: Goddess Boot Camp

Oh. My. Gods: Goddess Boot Camp By Tera Lynn Childs (Book 2 In The Oh. My. Gods. Series)

17 years old, Phoebe Castro has just recently fund out that she is descendant to a greek god, when she moved to Greece because her mother got remarried. Phoebe´s powers is out of control, eventhough she has spent months practicing them. But it is hard, because all the other kids her age has knowned and practiced their powers since they could walk. One day in June Damian tells her that the Gods have been keeping an eye on her, and that they are not satisfied with her non progress with her power. So they have choosen that Phoebe need to pass a test with her powers June 21, in 16 days. So Damian has choosen that she the next 2 weeks has to enroll at Dynamotheos Develoment Camp A.K.A Godess Boat Camp. The 2 weeks she will be on the camp her mom and Damian will be on their honeymoon, eventhough it was in December they got married - So her and Stella are going to be home alone for 2 weeks. Then there is the Pythiam Games, that is like the Olympic Games and Coach Lenny has gotten Griffen - her boyfriend - and her a trial, so if they win they can be in the games in August. So Griffen and Phoebe have started training together, running at night. When she that night speak over IM with Cesca and Nola, they tell her that Cesca is going to Paris for a summer intership at a magasin, and that Nola might get a summer research grant for Berkeley, her college to study the flowers on Phoebe´s island. So now Phoebe is very happy that her friends are coming closer to her.

The next day her and Stella say goodbye to their parents and Phoebe goes to the school at 10 to start Boat camp. To her suprise it is camp for a bunch of 10 year olds, Adara and Stella is counselors there and are suppose to train them together with a bad boy named Xander who is not much for talking or anything and he got expelled 3 years ago for a year - and Stella has a crush on him. After day 2 of camp, Stella tells Phoebe that she wants to make her, her project because she wont have that Phoebe fails because in the years she have been a counsler no one has fail wth Stella as Teacher. That night Stella and are trying some workouts when the doorbell ring. They go to the door and find a note for Phoebe saying: if she wants to know what really happened to her dad - and then a number. When she show it ti Nicole the next morning the note is blank for Nicole and she tells Phoebe that it must be cursed. When she writes down the numbers at the end of the note for Nicole, Nicole tells her its a book at the library. They go to the library and finds out that the book is among the special collection, and that they aren´t allowed to see them. But when they tell the Librarian that Phoebe is Nick Castro´s daughter she is allowed to see it and the computer screen says it is Nick Castro´s trial papers. The Librarian take them down to the secret collection, which is under the main floor and they didn´t even knew this floor existed. But when they come to the place the book is gone, and that can´t be explained because the books down there can´t be checked out.

That day after camp Nicole shows her a list over former student employes at the library and one of them is Stella so she ask her that night if she has taken the files but she says no. Tjecking her email that night there is a academy bloked email from the person that gave her the note and the email says: to meet the person tuesday around midnight near the school. Phoebe is also stressing over Griffin because she knows he has been spending a lot of time with Adara this past weeks but only as friends. But she can´t stop thinking tht maybe he is getting back together with her, because he asked her the day before if they could run the morning today instead of night because he was doing something with his aunt Lily. But earlier Nicole told her she had seen him with Adara, so Phoebe is major confused and knows that he has been lying to her. The next day after camp Phoebe goes to Troy´s dorm where she finds him and Nicole and she tells them about the email. Troy tells her it is impossiblee that the Email can be from a blocked person because the school has major security and everybody knows that, but she shows him the prof and they go down the hall to a boy named Urian, room who is a major computer freak. They show it too him and he comes up with that the person is really smart and that it is going to take him some time to track it, but there is only 50-50 chance that he can do it before tuesday at 11, when they will come see him again. When Phoebe leaves campus after she see Griffin going to the girl dorm, where Adara is waiting and she decides to not show up later when they are suppose to meet.

That night when Xander and Stella comes home to their house xander tells Phoebe that he is the only other student to ever take "The Test" he fail and got expelled for a year, bbut came back tried again and succeded and Stella was his tutor the second time. When Griffin comes by that night Phoebe confronts him, but he still wont tell her what is up so she tells him to leave. After she tjecks her email and finds a message from the person with the note: saying that Urian wont be able to find out who he is before their meeting. She also goes for a run where she hears Griffin and Nicole overtalking about the whole Griffin not telling Phoebe thing, and Phoebe is hurt that Nicole knows something, so without doing anything other than thinking she wants to get away she without meaning to Autopotation herself to her room.

At camp the day before Phoebe´s big meeting, she is paired with Adara, but because she doens´t make progress because of her emotions, Adara takes her aside and tells her that it isn´t fair the way she has been treating Griffin and that the boy is head over heels for Phoebe. She also tells her that the reason her and Griffin has been together is because she had family problems with her mom getting a job at Mount Olympys the next 25 years - Where you can´t visit and she can´t visit them. When Phoebe goes to Griffin house after camp he is not home so she goes running and when she comes home Griffen is there and she apologize and asks why Nicole knew and he tells her she guess.

The next night is the night and Nic, Troy and her goes to Urian room and he hasn´t found out anything yet. Suddenly someone nocs on the door and it is Griffen demanding what is going on because he found a note in his sweatshirt from Troy, because Troy now knowing he has mistaken the sweatshirt by the tracks that morning when Griffen, Phoebe and a girl named Tansy who is 12 from camp, was running. She tells him, but also explain that she is going to meet the person. To her suprise Damian shows up as the person havind autoport himself from the honeymoon, and explain that he did this to keep her mind of the test. And that it has helped because her powers has not been out of control the last while. He also did it to bring out her strogest emotions, so she could learn to control her powers in the hardest times. After Damian takes her too a big statue of the god Athena outside the school and tells her that she can never tell anyone about this. He touch a brick and a secret stairwell comes that leads underground to the vault, where Phoebe gets her book that is rightfully hers. There are a lot of safeguards down there and they have to run to make it out again.

The morning her mom and Damian are suppose to return and a couple of days before the big test, and a day before the games tryout, Stella and Phoebe goes to boatcamp at 10, only to Phoebe´s suprise finding out the clock is only 8 and that only Stella, dara and Xander are there to give her a test Xander has come up with. Xander tells her that he knows she will succeed because he can see into a person center - a gift from the gods because he is the son of the God Narcissus, so he wouldn´t end up like him - which means his powers are more stronger than Phoebe´s. Phoebe passes the test and her mom and Damian are there when she is finished. That night when Phoebe writes with her 2 BFF´s Nola tells her that she will come to the Island in August. The next day is the trial to the games and Phoebe just have to be in the top three. When she is almost done she is number 3 but suddenly there is a girl a little older than her in front of her and Phoebe knows that she is now number 4 and wont make the team. First it is hard for her to accept it, but she does and as fast as the racer in front of her showed up, she winks at Phoebe and disappear. Phoebe comes in third and makes the team and Damian tells her that that was her test and he vispers that the girl was Nike. A week later both her and Griffen has made the teams for the games

I think this book was just as good and fun as the first one and I really liked the library part where she tells about school library´s being small, because it is so true i real life. I am really hoping that she is going to write another one, because i really like this book.


Grade: 12