Review For Goddess Of Yesturday

Goddess Of Yesturday
By Caroline B Cooney
Published By Random House Books For Young Readers
Pages 254
Themes/ Subjects: Fake Identity, Gods, Greek, Treason

First Line:" I was six years old when King Nicander came to the island of my birth, demanding tribute and hostage."

This novel is about Anaxandra who is taken from her birth island when she is 6 by the King Nicander who takes her to the island Siphnos to accompany his daughter Callisto who is not able to walk. There she shes new things and is taken in as a hostage daughter. The Kings family, which includes queen Petra his wife, don't see her as a simple peasent. They see her as a daughter and think of her marked by her goddess of yesturday, whom they worshiped back on her old island. But as six years pass their island was sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Callisto burned to death, Nicander stabbed in the back, and Petra is taken as a slave as soon as she was forced to walk on her husbands body. Anaxandra scares off the pirates by taking an octapus on her head and impersonated Medusa (who is really said to have an octapus and not snakes on her head). When King Menelaus comes to the island seeing the smoke from the buildings, Anaxandra takes the identity of Callisto and is taken to Sparta where Menelaus rules. But his wife Helen does not believe that she is Callisto. Than Paris of Troy comes to Sparta to get a blood debt from killing a baby and he seduces Helen. He takes Helen to Troy to marry, which is treason. Anaxandra is forced to go with in Helens daughters Hermoine since everyone knew she would be killed. There she falls in love and has to fight for her life.
This was one of my favorite adventure books so far and I could not put it down. It had very interesting facts and many battles.
4/5 Stars