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Still, what that does indicate is a lot of content, and there is a lot – and a lot of it is very good. The world has been built from the ground up, and it seems no aspect of Greek myth has been ignored to create this adventure. That comes across in the telling, too – we hear of the committee of the Constellations wondering if Cyclops deserve half-price eye care; the unpronounceable handyman Hephaestus is rescued from working on repairing self-service tills. The fact that this is so gung-ho with action may be one due to this being a tweaked version for 2017 of the reasons that this originally came out in a 2014 (forget the copyright message hereoriginal, dated 2017) and we've yet to see any signs of the follow-up several years have been spent stuffing it – I assume the author struggled to come up with enough to stuff into the sequels that become more and more obviously intended the further you readstuffing. The only change I could pin down in my ignorance since that original release worth mentioning is that Mary Evans has become a more funky-sounding Maz, which you might think was in order I guess to boost salesacross genders, but we learn is due to conflicting author names for her publishers in the US. Either way, I can't see major problems for this book's success, now it finally has major publisher backing – yes, at my age I found myself wanting more variety to its flavour, and more of the company of Elliot, but the target audience will find what the book is, for them – really good fun, and both clever and winsome with it. So while I'm a touch reluctant to give it four stars myself, the intended reader will deem it deserving of them. And I still have hopes for the next volume, which I learn is indeed finally in the pipeline.