A review by haia_929
Aphrodite the Beauty by Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams
1.0
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I was not a fan of this book at all. The focus of this book is Aphrodite, which means there's quite a bit of focus on love and beauty. It's not as though that's terrible, it was of course expected, but I think it was done in the wrong way. Throughout this book it becomes clear that the characters value beauty in women over anything else, which means that Athena and Artemis especially are treated as less than others because they are more interested in non-beauty/love related topics. I also felt the focus on dating and beauty was little weird considering the age of the characters. This kind of focus on beauty is really a negative focus to take with young girls.
The characterization was okay in this one. I didn't find anything too off about it, but I just felt like there was a lot more that could have been done with the characters. Aphrodite still loves Ares despite him being a terrible person. I also felt that the characters, time and again, do things that should really be discouraged to other people and its treated as normal. In the first book they turned Medusa into stone and did nothing about it and in this book they resort to bullying and spreading rumors to fix their problems. That's just a bad message to send.
I didn't find anything about this book sweet or cute as I had with the others. I think overall it sent a really bad message that beauty and love are more important than other qualities, even if they made some action to fix this it came across too strongly throughout.
I was not a fan of this book at all. The focus of this book is Aphrodite, which means there's quite a bit of focus on love and beauty. It's not as though that's terrible, it was of course expected, but I think it was done in the wrong way. Throughout this book it becomes clear that the characters value beauty in women over anything else, which means that Athena and Artemis especially are treated as less than others because they are more interested in non-beauty/love related topics. I also felt the focus on dating and beauty was little weird considering the age of the characters. This kind of focus on beauty is really a negative focus to take with young girls.
The characterization was okay in this one. I didn't find anything too off about it, but I just felt like there was a lot more that could have been done with the characters. Aphrodite still loves Ares despite him being a terrible person. I also felt that the characters, time and again, do things that should really be discouraged to other people and its treated as normal. In the first book they turned Medusa into stone and did nothing about it and in this book they resort to bullying and spreading rumors to fix their problems. That's just a bad message to send.
I didn't find anything about this book sweet or cute as I had with the others. I think overall it sent a really bad message that beauty and love are more important than other qualities, even if they made some action to fix this it came across too strongly throughout.