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faerietalechelsea's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
A quick fun action packed read! I love Greek mythology retellings and this one was highly enjoyable! Ariadne is a badass FMC in this story and I loved the take on a Minotaur as Asterion. The insta love turned enemy to lovers was so much fun. Big bonus that a bunch of the audio is on Everand!
gaymoonreader's review against another edition
4.0
I was pleasantly surprised by this one! It has an actual plot, has some good spice, and it actually had a pretty good balance of the two. With that said, a star is getting knocked off because I felt like every single fight was just too easy to win. No one of importance that was on Team Hades actually died, and I feel like no matter how good of an assassin someone is, there should always be some type of weakness that makes the fight less easy. Like she can’t just be better than literally gods, y’all. It just does not make sense to me because as far as we know she’s just a normal human and therefore she shouldn’t be able to best literally everyone. However, I did appreciate the little bursts of feminism and I love Medusa’s character.
Even with these issues, I may continue with the series, but we will see!
Even with these issues, I may continue with the series, but we will see!
mrsgesek's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
melga8's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
wildfaeriecaps's review
4.0
It's interesting. I am not a fan of Greek myths but here I am, reading another book based on them. And loving it. Laughed out loud, swooned at the romance--what wasn't to love?
shelleyjld's review
5.0
Good characters and plot. A fun read with some heavy stuff but they deal with the heavy stuff well.
Edited to include this nugget:
I just finished the series and it was amazing. Every book was as good as the last and builds one on top of the other to create a world you want to join. I usually burn out on a series like this where each book focuses on a different couple because most series just introduce different couples but the same outline of experiences over and over. Not this one. Each character is unique. Each couple has his and her own challenges and personalities. And each book progresses the overarching story in a fulfilling manner.
I loved the writing and the dialogue and the humor and the pain. It was all so beautifully wrought.
Edited to include this nugget:
I just finished the series and it was amazing. Every book was as good as the last and builds one on top of the other to create a world you want to join. I usually burn out on a series like this where each book focuses on a different couple because most series just introduce different couples but the same outline of experiences over and over. Not this one. Each character is unique. Each couple has his and her own challenges and personalities. And each book progresses the overarching story in a fulfilling manner.
I loved the writing and the dialogue and the humor and the pain. It was all so beautifully wrought.
inniebin's review
3.0
I really liked this book and where the story is going - the author has caught my attention and I really feel like I want to read more of her books.
I haven't read that many takes on the greek myths in a modern setting, but this wasn't bad. I loved Asterion, he's perfect - but sadly Ariadne just falls short for me.
Don't get me wrong, she's got many good characteristics and she's absolutely perfect for Asterion. The issue I have is that she's written so epically good at what she does - you would never think she was mortal. Which is a problem, when said character IS "just" a mortal.
Yes, she's an assassin, she's a great one at that - and trained kind of like the old Spartan schools where you either were the best or you died.
But she's also like five foot nothing and 100lbs - let's try to at least be slightly realistic, there is no way this small mortal female can do any type of hand-to-hand combat with a grown ass 6,5 foot 280lb fully trained (and we are talking trained by gods type of trained) man.
It's just not going to happen. That's a "kick him in the balls and run" situation, that's been proven several times, it's just not physically possible.
I'm all for her doing damage - and yes when she's being a full assassin and getting the jump on people, coming out of the shadows etc etc, perfect and I love it and yes she would def. be able to do her thing. But not if she's the full-on focus.
And this just kept happening. She was written to be so good, she's better than gods and superheroes, and that got to me a little bit. It was just "too good" you know?
The other thing that brings the book down, is that this is a repeating problem in the series because I've read the first 4 books as I'm writing this and that is the editing. Now, the editing is not terrible. But it's not very good, and it could be miles better. There are consistently missing words, way more than there should be allowed to be. By that I mean when I am on double digits in a book, that's way too many. And that's for each book., not the whole series.
There is also the problem of sentences starting with the FMC name, again and again just a paragraph under or on the same page. This is a big no no, and it gets annoying. It's not a good sentence structure and it takes away from the content a bit, because I kept getting annoyed about it.
So as much as I loved the story about Asterion and I loved the settings of the book etc all this dragged this book down to three stars for me.
I haven't read that many takes on the greek myths in a modern setting, but this wasn't bad. I loved Asterion, he's perfect - but sadly Ariadne just falls short for me.
Don't get me wrong, she's got many good characteristics and she's absolutely perfect for Asterion. The issue I have is that she's written so epically good at what she does - you would never think she was mortal. Which is a problem, when said character IS "just" a mortal.
Yes, she's an assassin, she's a great one at that - and trained kind of like the old Spartan schools where you either were the best or you died.
But she's also like five foot nothing and 100lbs - let's try to at least be slightly realistic, there is no way this small mortal female can do any type of hand-to-hand combat with a grown ass 6,5 foot 280lb fully trained (and we are talking trained by gods type of trained) man.
It's just not going to happen. That's a "kick him in the balls and run" situation, that's been proven several times, it's just not physically possible.
I'm all for her doing damage - and yes when she's being a full assassin and getting the jump on people, coming out of the shadows etc etc, perfect and I love it and yes she would def. be able to do her thing. But not if she's the full-on focus.
And this just kept happening. She was written to be so good, she's better than gods and superheroes, and that got to me a little bit. It was just "too good" you know?
The other thing that brings the book down, is that this is a repeating problem in the series because I've read the first 4 books as I'm writing this and that is the editing. Now, the editing is not terrible. But it's not very good, and it could be miles better. There are consistently missing words, way more than there should be allowed to be. By that I mean when I am on double digits in a book, that's way too many. And that's for each book., not the whole series.
There is also the problem of sentences starting with the FMC name, again and again just a paragraph under or on the same page. This is a big no no, and it gets annoying. It's not a good sentence structure and it takes away from the content a bit, because I kept getting annoyed about it.
So as much as I loved the story about Asterion and I loved the settings of the book etc all this dragged this book down to three stars for me.