The Price of Victory

by Kate Simkins (Editor), John Kelly (Illustrator)

Witness a tale of rivalry and sabotage at the Olympic Games. Watch the past come to life in this gripping comic-book tale. Travel back in time to the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece and meet Pylades and his brother Kinesias, a champion athlete. From falling statues to sinking boats, join the brothers on their dangerous adventure, as it becomes clear someone wants to murder Kinesias before he can compete. But can they stop the person behind this dastardly assassination plot before the Games begin?

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sean Degenhardt]

Imagine your entire city is trusting you to win a race, you're in full armor, but there will be an evil person who is trying to stop you. Something I found interesting about this book is how the author uses pictures to help you better understand what he wants the reader to think the scene or the time period to look like. Another thing that I found interesting was how the character who is in the race never gave up and how he wanted to make his city proud. These are just some of the things you will see if you read this book.

The group of readers that I would recommend this book to is people who find ancient history cool, and interesting. These are very short books so maybe someone is just looking for a nice short but interesting read.

One of the things that i enjoyed the most about this book is how the main character didn’t give up on the race even though someone was trying to sabatosh him the entire time that he was in the race and before the race when he was training.

The price of victory was a very good book to me becasue it had all the things that i was looking for in a book like the era of time it was from and how the author made sure that the book was not boring but still keeping the book real. Another reason why i like this book is because it is a short easy read, I don’t really like to read but if I can find a short or medium length book then I will read. But it has to be something that dosent get boring and that the time period and characters are easy to understand and that there is a good easy back story to follow.
All of these things check out in this book.

[Landon Bailey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is about a good warrior that they had that really helped them win. He also wanted good things for his people. And people they did not like got near.

I want to discuss the time when they went to the peoples boat and took the screws out of a piece of would and then the next day the water destroyed the would so water got in the boat.

Another thing I wanna discuss is this guy was running up stairs and pushed people out of the way. When he pushed someone the guy fell and something fell out of his pocket and is was a seal they call it. He was a spartan spy.

I liked the book it was short. It was a nice action graphic novel. I would recommend this to someone that is into action books and graphic novels.

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick story about deception and betrayal during the original Olympic Games, this is another one that ended just as it should, with the Spartan runner winning the race-in-armor. Enjoyable, but not long enough.
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I read this on We Give Books (wegivebooks.org), where they donate books to schools when you read books on their site.
This seems to be the last graphic novel on the WGB site for now.

[Ratt · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a historical graphic novel for children.