LitPick Review
Pandora, a 13 year old girl, feels trapped in the life of a young greek girl. Her father has committed her to be engaged to a man more than twice her age when she turns 14. One day she meets the Socrates, the Wise One of Greek philosophy. The Wise One tells her about her name Pandora. He tells how Zeus punished men with women and Pandora was the first women's name. Inn history, Pandora opened a forbidden box and after that there was all kinds of chaos and trouble. The Wise One gets interrupted before the end of the story and tells her to return next week. The next week a young man named Phoenix invites Pandora to a party the Wise One is hosting and Pandora falls in love with Phoenix and wants to marry him. However, the morning after the party Pandora finds out that the Wise One is arrested. Pandora decides to attend the case of the Wise One. Will Pandora save the Wise One and marry Phoenix?
Opinion:
I thought that Pandora of Athens was a little boring at times and not very exciting. I thought this book was better than another book in this series called Atticus of Rome because it was more fast and up beat at times, and also more exciting. At some points there was too little detail than there should have been. Also at the end of Pandora of Athens the story left you hanging with lots of questions unanswered. I would have preferred to have all the missing links tied up at the end.
