Pandora Gets Vain (Pandora Series #2)

by Carolyn Hennesy

Overview

After capturing jealousy from a priestess in Crete, Pandy, Alcie, Iole and Dido are off to Egypt in search of the second of seven evils, vanity. But the goddess Hera is still up to her old tricks, and throws as many obstacles as she can into Pandy's path. A storm at sea, a group of talking dolphins, and the most unusual circus ever formed all feature in this action-packed follow-up.

Look for the other exciting books in the Pandora series: Pandora Gets Jealous, Pandora Gets Heart, Pandora Gets Lazy, and Pandora Gets Angry!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599905983
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/10/2010
Series:	Pandora Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	363 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Carolyn Hennesy has been an actress for many years, appearing in films and primetime television shows such as Legally Blonde 2, Dawson's Creek and That 70's Show. She can currently be seen on the daytime drama General Hospital. In her spare time, Carolyn teaches improvisational comedy and has become a flying trapeze artist. She lives in the Los Angeles area.
CAROLYN HENNESY is the author of all of Pandora's Mythic Misadventures as well as the New York Times bestseller The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli. As an actress, her work can be seen on both big and little screens (primetime and daytime), including her current work on the series True Blood. In addition to her full-time acting and writing careers, Ms. Hennesy also teaches improvisational comedy, is an avid shopaholic, and studies the flying trapeze. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her fab husband, Donald, two cool cats, and two groovy dogs.

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Editorial Reviews

Gr 4-7

Pandora and her friends continue their quest to recover the evils that were accidentally released from her box. Here, the young protagonists travel to Egypt to track down vanity. Along the way, they encounter sea storms, helpful dolphins, ancient tombs, and a caravan of wonders, all the while being threatened by the plotting goddess Hera. Although set in classical times, this fantasy reads more like a current-day adolescent adventure. The characters use contemporary teenage idioms, making the text accessible to readers, and a glossary of gods, historical figures, and other relevant terms is provided. Classical Greek and Egyptian religion and history tread lightly in the story's background, and certain elements have been modernized (Pandy uses a conch shell much like a cell phone). Action is balanced with dialogue and description, and a tongue-in-cheek tone casts a whimsical light upon the overall events. Less successful are brief scenes depicting sword-wielding Arab men who spout sexist remarks, seemingly reinforcing negative stereotypes. Still, the smoothly written narrative makes this a suitable choice for larger libraries serving fans of fantasy and mythology.-Jeff Meyer, Slater Public Library, IA

School Library Journal

The chick-lit quest tale kicked off in Pandora Gets Jealous (1/08) loses humor and steam in this second episode. Having loosed Evils into the world and been ordered by Zeus to get them back into the famous box, Pandy (Pandora) and her friends Alcie and Iole-joined by a hunky young Gladiator School dropout named Homer-set off for Alexandria to retrieve Vanity. Thanks to plenty of surreptitious help from the gods and Pandy's knack with fire, the teens weather all manner of burns, broken bones and bad wounds on the way to a violent climax. The teen banter and behavior that animated the previous adventure seems labored, though, and a poorly conceived encounter with a circus staffed by multicultural stereotypes serves more to pad the page count than lighten the tone. Once Vanity's under wraps again, the Egyptian god who had been masquerading as the circus's inscrutable Chinese magician steps in to clean up the mess, and the young folk are off to the Atlas Mountains to collar Laziness. One might argue that they've already found it. (glossary) (Fantasy. 11-14)

Kirkus Reviews