The Missing

Titans #2

by Kate O'Hearn

Follow Astraea, Zephyr, and their friends travel to a dangerous jungle world in this second book in a brand-new series from bestselling Pegasus author Kate O’Hearn, who masterfully blends mystery and mythology together.

With the weakened Titan prisoners hidden on Earth, Astraea, Zephyr, and their team head to Nesso’s jungle world to seek help in the struggle against the Mimics.

But nothing goes to plan. The moment they arrive, they encounter a world filled with dangers they never imagined possible—from massive, hungry dinosaurs to a blisteringly hot sun. Soon Zephyr and Astraea are seriously wounded. Without ambrosia or nectar to heal them, the group soon realize they are in serious trouble. But where can they go for help?

With Zephyr’s life slipping away, Jake and Tryn use their new flying skateboards to try to make it to Xanadu where they hope to find ambrosia for Zephyr and enlist help to join the fight against the Mimics.

Meanwhile, Astraea and the three centaurs must use all their cunning to keep Zephyr safe and alive. But danger comes in many forms, and it seems as though no one may be left to help them—until Jake and Tryn stumble across a lone Olympian everyone believed to be dead...

Genres: Fantasy, Mythology, Middle Grade, Animals, Fiction, Action

464 pages, Hardcover

Published July 7, 2020

About the author

Kate O'Hearn was born in Toronto Canada, but raised in the heart of New York City and has lived in many places throughout her life. These days, she calls the south coast of England home. She has 3 brothers, no sisters and is passionate about animals and their causes and has many animal friends. (Pets)

Over the course of her life she has had several careers before finding her real love, writing children's books. Being the only girl in family of boys, she grew up a true tom-boy and always loved books with high adventure. But one of the problems she discovered was a lack of female leads in these adventure books.

When she started to write, Kate decided to address this imbalance and now writes high fantasy adventures with strong, compassionate and adventure loving girl heroes. There are plenty of boys in the story to keep it interesting and challenging, but she believes that a girl hero can be as brave, strong and adventurous as a boy.

She insists that adventures are for everyone!

So come and enjoy a few adventures with her...

Reviews

[ElsaMakotoRenge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book, as I have every other Kate O’Hearn book I’ve read. (I LOVE the Valkyrie trilogy in particular!) However, there were so many typo errors in The Missing that I felt I had to dock a star for it. I’ll be looking forward to the next book in this series whenever it’s announced, as this one ended on a cliffhanger:)

[Tiah Varner · Rating 4 out of 5]

So good! I absolutely love how all the books flow together! I love the suspense and all the fun scenes. 8/10

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book continues on the themes of the first. One thing I like is how Zephyr can become more wise and mature while still being funny. I also do find the centaurs (especially Cylus) to stand out in many ways for their courage, their intelligence, their ability to adapt to their struggles on this jungle world, and their ability to overcome prejudice and old habits to slowly become friends with the other main characters. Watching these scenes unfold radiates a sense of admiration, heartwarming-ness, and feeling proud of them.

This all leads to a sense of excitement about where things will go with the characters in the next book.

[Meghan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was received as an ARC from Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing - Aladdin in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

Myself as well as many of our young patrons are huge fans of the Titans series they can't wait to see what's in store for Zephyr, Astrea and the team. This time they are on a quest to Nesso's jungle and finally defeat the Mimics once and for all. But as always things do not go as expected Zephyr gets severely wounded and is in desperate need of ambrosia and nectar. While caring for Zephyr, Astrea sends Jake and Tryn to go to Xanadu and get nectar for Zephyr while they use all they got to keep Zephyr alive. Battles form, trouble finds their ways and jam packed with drama for all ages. I am awaiting the release of this book and can't wait to share it with our youth patrons.

We will consider adding this title to our JFiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

[Ali Zimmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read all the other Kate O'Hearn books and I think that she is a wonderful author. I think this book was focused on the wrong things though. I enjoyed the story a lot and love the characters, but I think that there was too much dialogue from unimportant conversations. Over all though, this book was an easy going, fast, and fun read and I would recommend this to lots of people, specifically ages 8-11.

[Joseph Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

While Titus is being invaded by alien like creatures called, "Mimics" Astraea, Jake, Tryn, Zephyr, a snake named Nesso, and other Olympians and humans and titans are trying to stop them from taking over. The only weapon that works against them is Nesso's venom. But just one snake isn't enough. They need to gather more snake to defeat the Mimics. Will just a few snakes and other people be able to end the mimics or is it to late? Read this book by Kate O'Hearn and find the answer.

[Charlotte S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for a book club and loved it so much! My favorite characters are Jake and Zephyr because of their funny bond with each other. This is a great series if you love mythology and I highly recommend it, even if you aren't interested in that sort of thing. This is a three-book series and I've read all of them! Follow @bronteandwilder on Instagram for more fun book recommendations!

[Ananiah · Rating 5 out of 5]

The way Kate O’Hearn mixes Greek mythology and modern times together is amazing. I love how adventurous all of her characters are and how daring each of them are I have loved all her books that I’ve read so far which of been to the Pegasus books and the Titans books

[Patrick Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

[FantasyBookWorm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved It! Kate O’Hern Does it again with this amazing novel debut.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter loved this series

[elizabeth ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once again, I can’t remember when I read these it was so long ago. But I loved these books

[Bella · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure if this would make it to a three star if I didn't get those scraps of the pegasus characters in this...

[LizzieM · Rating 5 out of 5]

This keeps getting better!

[prai♧ · Rating 5 out of 5]

read a few years back, need the rest of the series omds

[Isabelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the connections between series!

[Melanie Dulaney · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 5th grade mythology and fantasy reading library patrons enjoy Kate O’Hearn’s Pegasus and Valkyrie series so it was with great anticipation that I opened my digital ARC of The Missing from Edelweiss. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that this was book 2 in her new Titans series and order seems to matter. I read about 100 pages which was enough to realize that there are Titans, humans, centaurs and many other worlds and creatures both mythological and prehistoric in this action-filled fantasy book. I plan to add both the series opener as well as this one to my final library order for the year and predict excellent circulation numbers among my stronger readers. Based on her previous series, I also feel confident that it will be free of sex and profanity and the violence will be appropriate for the genre and grades 5-8.

[Avery Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely my favorite so far and had such a good story line.