Sweet Venom

by Tera Lynn Childs

Overview

Three sisters. One destiny. Nowhere to hide.

Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it's also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just like her shows up to fight the monster.

Gretchen is tired of beasties pulling her out into the dead of night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak, shadowy home is just another notch on her monster-hunting combat belt. But running into a girl who could be her double is a twist she didn't see coming.

Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look exactly like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of a terrifying mythological creature, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.

Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful Gorgon maligned in myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in a world where monsters lurk in plain sight.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946345288
Publisher:	Fearless Alchemy
Publication date:	05/13/2025
Series:	Sweet Venom , #1
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Tera Lynn Childs is the award-winning creator of magical young adult worlds, including the mythology-infused Oh. My. Gods. series, the romantic mermaid adventures of Forgive My Fins, and the enchanting Darkly Fae fantasy novellas. When she's not choreographing venomous battles between gods and monsters, Tera spends her time wandering through the woods and devouring mysteries and true crime. Discover more about her worlds at teralynnchilds.com.

Editorial Reviews

A 21st-century reboot of the Gorgon mythos.

Imagine yourself a teenager just arrived in San Francisco, in a new high school. It's an opportunity to reinvent yourself, to become more than the meek wallflower you left behind. Unfortunately, Grace is finding that a change of place doesn't automatically changeher. Life appears to be about the same as always...until she runs up against a Minotaur that only she can see. Things become even more bizarre when she sees a girl who looks exactly like her take out that monster as if it was a walk in the park. Gretchen, on the other hand, is used to returning monsters to their home world on a regular basis—it's finding a long-lost twin that she has trouble dealing with. Trying to build a bond between them, Grace finds there may be a third sibling out there and that their lives are bound up in ancient mythology, as descendants of Medusa. Starting with this cool, Percy Jackson–esque premise, this book is all about bringing the triplets together and setting up future action. Said action will probably include mysterious but luscious boyfriends, unknown dangerous foes and assistance from Ursula, a woman who rescued Gretchen from the streets but who is now in hiding herself. There's obviously a lot more to come in the sequel.

For teens who hunger for a chick-lit alternative to Rick Riordan. (Fantasy. 13 & up)

Kirkus Reviews