This is the last of a four-part story arc in which Jack and Annie are tasked with recovering four lost stories. The previous books sent them to ancient Rome, medieval Ireland, and ancient China. This time the destination is ancient Greece and the original Olympic Games.

Osborne weaves a feminist theme into the story, as the kids are confronted with the fact that women and girls are banned from even watching the games, not to mention from participation in arts, theater, and government.

With the help of Plato, Jack and Annie recover a lost story, but things go wrong when Jack goes with Plato to watch the chariot races. Like all of the stories in this arc, there is a mix of history and mythology, with the winged horse Pegasus putting in an appearance.

I felt that the climactic danger was rather forced, but Osborne made up for that with a really good ending that did an excellent job of tying together all four books in the arc. Annie really goes on an emotional roller-coaster in this story, and the ending helps to resolve some of that as well. The finishes to these four-book mini-series are definitely one of Osborne's strengths.

I read this with my seven-year-old son, who was able to predict some of the twists (and had fun doing so), and who enjoyed seeing the connections to Greek Mythology, which has featured in other books we've read such as Percy Jackson.