Dark Frost (Mythos academy #3)

Dark Frost (Mythos Academy #3)
Jennifer Estep

Publication Date: May 29, 2012
Finish Date: June 15, 2012
Format: Paperback

From Goodreads: I’ve seen so many
freaky things since I started attending Mythos Academy last fall. I know
I’m supposed to be a fearless warrior, but most of the time, I feel
like I’m just waiting for the next Bad, Bad Thing to happen. Like
someone trying to kill me—again.

Everyone at Mythos Academy knows
me as Gwen Frost, the Gypsy girl who uses her psychometry magic to find
lost objects—and who just may be dating Logan Quinn, the hottest guy in
school. But I’m also the girl the Reapers of Chaos want dead in the
worst way. The Reapers are the baddest of the bad, the people who
murdered my mom. So why do they have it in for me?

It turns out
my mom hid a powerful artifact called the Helheim Dagger before she
died. Now, the Reapers will do anything to get it back. They think I
know where the dagger is hidden, but this is one thing I can’t use my
magic to find. All I do know is that the Reapers are coming for me—and
I’m in for the fight of my life.

This
book is my favourite in this series so far. It starts off very
unexpected with lots of action and it keeps actionpacked for the rest of
the book. And the story is so predictable at times, but this book also
had so many nice twists.

Overall I just really enjoy reading
this series, probably also because I really like Jennifer Esteps writing
style. I just want to keep reading, although sometimes I do have issues
with some things that happen. The story isn’t all that special, but
mostly the writing style makes up for it. And I think it is just an
enjoyable story.

The characters are great as always. I really
like Gwen, but I think she makes some stupid mistake in the rest of this
series. In this book we really see Gwen grow and I started liking her
so much more. We see more of her inner strenght, especially at the end
of the book. The book mainly focusses on Gwen, we do get to see some
more of the other characters just like in the other books, but it’s
obvious the focus is on Gwen. I would if we got some more information
about Daphne in this book, I think she got a little too less attention
in this book. We are also introduced to a great new character in this
book, I am not going to say more about it because I don’t want to spoil
it. In this book I also realized how much I like Vic, the talking sword.
He actually is just another character, although one who can’t move on
it’s own.

Also we get to see more of Loki’s champion in this
book, and actually I was a bit disapointed because she really is just a
stereotypical bad character with evil ideas who does what the evil god
LOki wants. I would’ve liked it if there was some more depth to her, she
just wasn’t an interesting villian.

This book is so much more
actionpacked and more darker than the previous books. I think the title
really fits this book, the theme of this book get’s more darker than the
first two books. While there is more action, there is less romance. I
wish that the romance would finally progress some more, but the romance
progresses very slowly.

To conclude: so far the best book in this
series. This book is more actionpacked and the theme is a bit darker
than the first two books. I also started liking Gwen much more in this
book, she really shows her inner strenght. I do think the side
characters got a bit too less attention.