Dancing Days

Val St. Crowe

Dec 2013 · The Helicon Muses Book 1 · Punk Rawk Books

About this ebook

When Nora Sparrow was a little girl and Owen Asher told her she was special, she believed him.

But Nora’s fifteen now, and she’s too old to believe in magical happily-ever-afters or mystical otherworlds where she can create all day long and do what she likes. Sure, there are inexplicable things about her and Owen, like that trick he can do with his eyes that bends people to his will or the fact that storm clouds gather if she ever does one creative thing, but…

Special? Her? She doesn’t even want to be special. She only wants to be like everyone else.

When he begs her to try another ritual to open the dimensions, she agrees mostly to humor him. Owen’s rituals never work. 

Except this one does, and it’s all real. She’s a muse, not a human, and this world is Helicon—a bohemian world where the muses play hard, drink hard, throw parties, and create constantly. It’s Woodstock with magic, and here everyone is like her. She finally belongs.

But Owen was right after all. Half-god Owen, the son of Dionysus, the powerful and single-minded boy whose little eye trick doesn’t work on her anymore? He was right, because she is special.

She’s the only one Owen is obsessed with. And he’ll do anything to have her, to keep her, anything at all. Even tear Helicon apart at the seams.

The Helicon series is a soapy, irreverent portal fantasy wherein the drama of teen relationships tends to overshadow whatever magical threat they’re trying to fight. Lots of drinking, swearing, inappropriate sexual decisions, grappling with sexual orientation and gender, and random appearances by mythological figures thrown in for good measure. It’s genre-bending, impossible to categorize, and for everyone out there who equally loves Gossip Girl, Rocky Horror, and Narnia.

Topics: free, freebie, fantasy, magic, myths, legends, Greek mythology, abuse, portal fantasy, fairies, muses, Dionysius, Nimue, King Arthur, Norse mythology, Loki

Ratings and reviews

I couldn't really get into the book. I felt that it did not flow well. The idea was ok and I'd be interested in finding out what craziness Owen is up to now but I don't want to read the next book. It was a struggle reading this one. Nora's character annoyed me and the whole thing felt anti climatic. There was no excitement or thrill.

Its great, can't wait to read the entire series. But somehow its a bit this and that. Anyway its a perfect book for fantasy and arts lover

This had a different story line. Didnt feel like id read the same book before! Cant wait for the story to continue!