Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

This was the second book club choice, and it wasn't a bad one. I wasn't exactly looking forward to it, as it seems like all YA books have kind of fallen into the same pattern and it's just become... well yawn worthy. But this one was actually pretty good and broke out of the YA supernatural mold a little bit.

This book tells the story of three girls; Grace, Gretchen, and Greer. Triplet separated at birth to keep them safe until the time came for them to fulfill their prophecy. Each girl has her own very different life, but the increase in mythological monsters tromping around San Francisco has brought them together. Together they learn about their legacy as descendants of the Gorgons; Medusa, Sthenno, and Euryale and thus begins a pretty interesting beginning of this new YA series.

 I think the thing that I liked the most about this book, what set it apart, was there was no romance. Now, there were love interests for all of the girls, two had crushes and one had a boyfriend, but that was such a small detail of the story(at least in this first book) that you could say there was no romance at all. It was more believable as far as it being a tale of 16 year old girls. All in all it was a solid start. Interesting, easy to read, and well rounded likable characters. I look forward to more.