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Lore by Alexandra Bracken

173 reviews

dacha's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

now i just want to forget how boring is lore 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

serotonone's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

This book is mediocre, at best. 
Would have DNF'd if it wasn't for my buddy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit

carolinacortez's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

uuuu si me gusto jajajaja
pues la verdad si me gusto para que les miento, solo no es un libro wooow, pero me divertí y la pase bien OJO, la pase bien por que traté de apagar lo mejor que pude la parte de mi cerebro que me decía "no los mitos griegos no dicen eso, no las cosas no son asi" (sobre todo por que la autora confundía mitos romanos con griegos, si estoy hablando específicamente del mito de medusa), así que si quieren leerlo por que creen que van a aprender un montón sobre mitología clásica helénica no es su libro, pero si quieren leer algo tipo los juegos del hambre pero de dioses griegos adelanteeee.

pd. la verdad se mi hiso respetuoso hacia la creencia helenica, en ese sentido la autora si supo manejarlo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual harassment

erin_curry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Murder

lollyr's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

hannah_steven's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Grief, and Sexual harassment

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

reebeee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Interesting concept, tense and engaging plot, excellently described fight scenes, effective (though occasionally predictable) twists, and smart references to classical texts. The main character is lovable and interesting—I loved her feral, rage-filled energy—but the narrative suffers from Most Special Girl syndrome. There aren’t really any other female characters who can rival Lore for determination, intellect, or ability (except for Athena which is…complicated). 

Similarly, while the novel tries to make some feminist statements about Greek myth and the present day, the narrative keeps accidentally undermining them: women are consistently unreliable,

(they’re dead, or they’re overly emotional and crazy, or they’re backstabbing, or they’re manipulators who will pretend to care about you and offer you wisdom but actually are the root cause of all your problems),

the people Lore can and should trust are generally men, and the divine patriarchy (i.e. Zeus

and Apollo

) is upheld as an ultimate and reliable authority. My objection is not that I think all men should be depicted as untrustworthy and all women as reliable, but rather that I would like to have seen one mortal female character ally herself with Lore who doesn’t seem like a last-minute, flatly characterized attempt to add a woman into the mix. 

The beginning was mostly clunky explosion and info-dumping, and the ending was somewhat abrupt, though it did create a satisfying end to the characters’ development. 

And, though it’s not likely to bother anyone else, the book has a fundamental misunderstanding of how oaths work in oath-reliant societies:

an oath means you will be held to the thing you swore an oath to do, whether or not you meant it when you swore the oath. Oathbreaking is one of the most serious legal offenses in societies that rely heavily on contractual oaths (e.g. medieval England, presumably the hunters’ culture in this book) and came with the assumption that the oathbreaker would be punished to the full extent of the law if caught and, whether or not they were caught, punished by divine justice. This of course doesn’t mean much in societies whose legal systems are not predicated on the assumption of divine justice, but for the hunters, whose society REVOLVES around gods, breaking an oath would presumably come with divine consequences—and the narrative keeps insisting upon Zeus as the ultimate holder of authority and control over the rebel gods. All this rant to say, Athena should NOT have been able to say “lol jk about that oath” without seeing some sort of narrative consequences for it.

In conclusion, an entertaining read with some characterization flaws and some cracks in its overall message. Athena is my fave.

insert that reddit meme (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/countmalvolio/615892667435483136?source=share) about Macbeth: 
“Athena did nothing wrong. Prove me wrong” 
“Brutally killing Lore’s entire family was pretty over the top.” 
“No it wasn’t”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

gertienott's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hunger games but with the Greek gods 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment