Book Details:
Book Title: The High Court by Chris Ledbetter
Category: YA Fiction, 290 pages
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Month 9 Books
Release date: October 16, 2018
Tour dates: April 1 to 30, 2019
Content Rating: PG (some profanity (damn, ass), no f-bombs, some kissing, no sex scenes, some violence, nothing gory or graphic)
Book Description:
High atop Mount Olympus, dawn breaks on a new academic term. Normalcy has returned to campus following a harrowing expedition into The Underworld to rescue kidnapped students by Zeus and his fellow Olympians. Now, as they prepare to testify in The High Court, Hyperion will be tried for the attack on Crete and death of Anytos. Kronos will stand trial for the murder of Mount Olympus Prep’s Headmaster Ouranos.
As the trials draw near, Mount Olympus Prep students and faculty are besieged repeatedly by a race of gargantuan stone and earth giants. Under heavy assault, the Olympians are forced to flee to the volcanic island of Limnos to regroup. Meanwhile, a toxic poison Zeus has carried with him since a prior fight with a dragoness, creeps toward his brain.
In a race against time and beasts, Zeus and his friends must find a way to survive not only the toxin ravaging Zeus’ body, but also the giants who grow stronger after every attack, and somehow make it to the The High Court alive.
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Chris Ledbetter is an award-winning author of short fiction and novels for young adults. “Jason’s Quest,” a short story retelling of the Jason and Medea Greek myth was published in the anthology, Greek Myths Revisited. His first full-length novel, Drawn earned him two awards, Library of Clean Reads Best YA 2015 and Evernight Publishing Readers’ Choice Award Best YA 2015, as well as a USA TODAY “Must Read” recommendation. His second novel, Inked, concludes that duology. The Sky Throne is his newest young adult series. It includes, thus far, The Sky Throne and The High Court.
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Why You’ll Love this book
I’ve pitched this story as The Client meets Orestes Trial (for those Grecophiles who know what that is), or The Client meets Hesiod’s Theogony (for those Classics scholars who are familiar). In general, THE HIGH COURT, is The Pelican Brief / The Client meets Greek mythology. I think readers will enjoy this fast-paced, myth-based legal thriller. Aside from the looming court cases that shroud the story, I think readers will love reconnecting with their old friends, the Olympians. Zeus is up to his antics again. And there’s a deepening of the relationship with Metis. But the general ensemble cast is one of the strengths of this series. I loved getting back together with these characters. I hope the readers will as well. Oh… I almost forgot. I introduce a new character to the mix of standard Olympians. Wait till you see who it is.
Mount Olympus Prep school is back in session and we find Zeus and the other students attending classes to help shape them into the gods they are to become. Zeus has to take Leadership and Intro to Strategy. We also meet new gods as Aphrodite joins the school. Along with classes and the daily struggle, the students also have to prepare to travel to the High Court where Hyperion and Kronos are to be sentenced for their crimes. But someone is trying to stop them with stone and earth monsters that follow wherever the gods go and seem to keep getting more powerful.
This book picks up right where The Sky Throne ends so I recommend reading the books in order. Things are starting to really pick up with the different classes and training. But also with the trial of Hyperion and Kronos. Zeus decides he is going to confront Kronos but things don’t go his way. I did feel for him as he is dealing with the poison and the cure coming with some pretty bad complications.
This is a great sequel to The Sky Throne that had me glued to the pages to see what was going to happen next. I will admit that first part of the book felt slower but when things started happening the book took off. Some questions got answered from the first book but then again I am left with others at the end of this book. I can’t wait to read book 3 for those answers.
This is a great young adult book that will appeal to mid-grade readers to adults. You really need to check out this series.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.
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