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A review by claudiareadsitall
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
3.0
Excellent premise - disappointing execution.
Lore is yet another underdog/chosen one/lethal competition story that started out so brilliantly, but then devolved into an exhausting rollercoaster of bloody action and characters that I didn't really care about.
Because they rebelled, the gods of Olympus are sentenced to spend seven days, every seven years, being hunted by descendants of Greek heroes. If they are killed, then their power and immortality goes to the killer. I mean, this sounds amazing, right?
Then come the info dumps, the she's dead (but she isn't) moments, the betrayals that anyone with the least amount of knowledge of Greek mythology would see coming, and the cringe-y romance between two people who haven't seen each other in years but sure, ”I was born knowing how to do three things—how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you”.
I wanted to love this book, but despite nearly 500 pages and despite my love for all things Greek myth retelling, it was just ok for me.
Lore is yet another underdog/chosen one/lethal competition story that started out so brilliantly, but then devolved into an exhausting rollercoaster of bloody action and characters that I didn't really care about.
Because they rebelled, the gods of Olympus are sentenced to spend seven days, every seven years, being hunted by descendants of Greek heroes. If they are killed, then their power and immortality goes to the killer. I mean, this sounds amazing, right?
Then come the info dumps, the she's dead (but she isn't) moments, the betrayals that anyone with the least amount of knowledge of Greek mythology would see coming, and the cringe-y romance between two people who haven't seen each other in years but sure, ”I was born knowing how to do three things—how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you”.
I wanted to love this book, but despite nearly 500 pages and despite my love for all things Greek myth retelling, it was just ok for me.