Game of strength and storm
Menard, Rachel, 1979-2022
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Seventeen-year-olds Gen and Castor of Olympia race to Victory is the only option. Once a year, the Olympian Empresses grant the wishes of ten people selected by a lottery - for a price. Seventeen-year-old Gen, a former circus performer, wants the freedom of her father, who was sentenced to life in prison for murders she knows he didn't commit. Castor plans to carry the island Arcadia into the future in place of her brother, Pollux, but only after the Empresses force a change in her island's archaic laws that requires a male heir. To get what they want, Gen and Castor must race to complete the better half of ten nearly impossible labors. They have to catch the fastest ship in the sea, slay the immortal Hydra, defeat a gangster called the Boar, and capture the flesh-eating Mares, among other deadly tasks. Gen has her magic, her ability to speak to animals, her inhuman strength - and the help of Pollux, who's been secretly pining for her for years. But Castor has her own gifts: the power of the storms, along with endless coin. Only one can win. The other walks away with nothing - if she walks away at all.
Main title:
Game of strength and storm / Rachel Menard.
Author:
Menard, Rachel, 1979-, author
Imprint:
Mendota Heights, Minnesota : Flux, 2022.
Collation:
394 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Labors of Gen ; n1.
Notes:
Teenagers of Olympia Gen and Castor race to be the first to complete six nearly impossible challenges to obtain their greatest desire. Only one will win. The other walks away with nothing - if she walks away at all. This is a gender-bent retelling of Hercules and his tasks, set in a Greek inspired fantasy world, in an empire called Olympia.
Audience:
Secondary
Awards:
2023 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist, Young Adult Fiction – Fantasy.
ISBN:
9781635830767 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
412250
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Teenage Fiction | MENARD n1 | Available |