there were definitely times that the things that characters said felt so unnecessarily preachy. like there are quotes from this book that sound something straight out of a self help book. But I knew my inner 13-old-Greek-mythology-addicted would have jumped into this, and I couldn't let her down. I had no idea about the greek world before I read this book. So it came as a huge surprise and I enjoyed it<3 The legends were twisted and super fun! Meanwhile, Lore is in a boxing ring trying not to think about the death of her close friend Gil and her family. She is forced to fight Castor, a friend she thought died seven years prior. Lore then meets with Miles and the two find Athena in an alleyway. They take her into their home and Lore explains the Agon to Miles. She and Athena then agree to bind their fates to each other and defeat Wrath together. Lore realizes she needs to find Castor so he can heal Athena. When she goes to a building belonging to his family, she realizes that he has ascended to godhood after somehow killing Apollo. She saves him from an assassin and Artemis who calls him a Godkiller. Lore, Castor, and Castor’s relative Van all escape and Castor heals Athena, much to her annoyance. They all agree to work together to defeat Aristos before he can gain more power. I admit that the beginning is confusing. I had trouble differentiating all the families and understanding how exactly the Agon works (who can take the power of the god, who is hunting which god, etc.), but I pushed through it and it became clearer in the fourth chapter. The list of all the families and their important members helped, but it really was a struggle to get invested in the story at first. You definitely need to take some notes if you want to have a clear picture.

As their punishment for their mistakes, the nine greek gods are forced to walk the earth in their mortal form and protect themselves from hunters who are desperate to kill the gods and take the powers for themselves! The Agon happens every seven years and it is the time when u should be scared!of life left the old god’s eyes. “The way of your father, and his father before him. The old gods must Ok, I don’t feel like putting the goodies on my blog SO under the Owlcrate picture I will put up a spoiler tag with all of the goodies and the book cover 😉

But honestly, as I started the first chapter, then slowly made my way through the story, I realised that I am: 1) confused and 2) bored. Maybe I was expecting more. Maybe story telling style, exaggerated violence, too much triggering subjects cut my living cords and exhausted me lot to enjoy the entire journey. All rights reserved. Published by Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek out her help: Castor, a childhood friend of Lore believed long dead, and a gravely wounded Athena, among the last of the original gods.In the prologue, the god Wrath (also known as Aristos) is forced into a human body to participate in the Agon, a week of battle between the gods. Aristos is determined to never face another Agon. If a God is killed during the Agon, the hunter responsible for their death gets to seize that God's powers and more importantly, their immortality, thus becoming a New God. This had so much potential and ended up being so incredibly flat. The world is supposed to be modern day, but you wouldn’t know it by how characters act and how incredibly misogynistic the hunter society is. Sure, they are more of an insular culture but you can’t honestly have me believe that they are living in NYC and totally cut off from modern society and norms. I also had a problem with the characters. As I generally had no problem per se with either of them, I simply could care less about them because they felt (to me) a little bit flat. It was nothing there to get me emotionally invested in them. Which, I think, it's sad.