The students at Mythos Academy go on holiday to the Winter Carnival. Right before they leave Gwen almost gets run over, and shot with an arrow. She believes it is due to a Reaper wanting revenge for the death of another Reaper. At the Winter Carnival similar strange things start happening, leading her to uncovering the truth behind it.

This is the second book in the Mythos Academy series. The first part of the book felt like a recap of everything that had happened in the first book. The Mythos Academy is made for descendants of warriors to learn to fight Reapers, and keep away another chaos war. The Reapers follow Loki, and are trying to unlock him. The Mythos Academy and most all warriors try to keep the Reapers from unlocking Loki. Gwen is a Gypsy, blessed with Psychometry, a skill that lets her touch things and get images or feeling from an object.

Mythos Academy has grown on Gwen after she learned she was even more gifted than she thought, and made friends with Daphne. She was overly whiney for me in the first book. In this one she grew on me a little, but she still whines. This might be right for a teenage girl, but she is growing as a character. More is found out about her back ground and other character’s backgrounds. This new information made me feel a little closer to the characters. One of the biggest for me with Gwen is that she says a lot of things in conversation to other characters that they know, and the reader knows. Information is repeated enough to get repetitive.

In the first book Gwen meets the Spartan man-whore Logan, and crushes over him. In this one he has hooked up with another girl, and seems to constantly flaunt her in front of Gwen who hates it. He likes Gwen, or seems to, but he doesn’t want her to know a secret. Because of Gwen’s power it is impossible to keep secrets from her. It bothered me that Gwen watched him with another girl, and still would have been all over him given the chance. They do grow a little closer in this book, and have a few scenes together that are really cute.

Once they get to the Carnival things became a little too predictable for my taste. I saw the plot coming a mile away, even predicted a great deal of it. Despite the light plot, it alludes to other things that might be coming. It is the promise of more, and Gwen’s interesting scenes with Logan that kept me reading the story.

The end of the novel was paced a little faster than the rest of the book. It wasn’t that there was more going on, but that new information was coming to light. I wasn’t a fan of the constant repeating, or how whiney Gwen can be. The book is a light read, and can easily be devoured in a day or two. The side characters took some of the spot light. They are definitely expanding (a little) away from stereotypes, which was something that bothered me in the first novel. I liked this one more than the first, and I hope they keep getting better.