Poor Ares doesn’t have many myths about him alone, so George O'Connor chooses to make his book about the greatest war in all Greek mythology, the Trojan war. While most retellings of the Trojan war focus on the mortals, this version is told solely from the point of view of the Gods: their interference in the battle, their arguments among themselves, their pain at the deaths of their mortal children. It makes for a dramatic story that is at times comic, at times tragic. Making Ares the central character allows O'Connor to highlight the brutality of war instead of glorifying it the way many comics do, but at a safe distance, thanks to the Gods’ immortal perspectives. It’s a clever choice that makes this book a useful tool to help young readers start to think about war at a much more philosophical level than one would expect from a comic book. I recommend it highly for all readers. Younger readers can enjoy all of the action, but it will also start readers who are ready for it thinking.  – Krishni Burns

I like the book Ares, Bringer of War because it had a lot of fighting a war, and you can get to know more about gods that were born before everyone. - Van (age 10)

* For further information on the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, please refer to the website of the project “Our Mythical Childhood” [link: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/], led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland, with the participation of Bar Ilan University, University of New England, University of Roehampton, University of Yaoundé 1, and other affiliated scholars, within the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No 681202).