A review by kaelielily
Lore by Alexandra Bracken

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

3.0

This book started out so strong, I was already thinking about wether this book would be a five or four star read for me. I loved the worldbuilding, all the different bloodlines and the old and new gods. I thought this version of New York, that combined both Mythology and modern life was a very interesting setting. I felt that the mystery and plot twists as well as the flashbacks, which resolved some of the open questions, were woven in skillfully. But sadly, for me, the ending fell very flat and brought Lore down to three stars.

This book could‘ve been even better if it answered some more of these open questions and didn‘t rush the ending. As much as I liked the fact that this was a standalone, maybe it should‘ve been longer or even a duology to exhaust its full potential.

The ending felt incredibly rushed. We had just spent so much time on world building, meeting all of these bloodlines and gods, building up to the real meaning of the poem, and then it just ends without wrapping up all of the threads.
Maybe I missed something, but I never realized what the poem really meant. Was it a way to end the Argon once and for all? The characters even said at one point, that it wouldn‘t be enough to kill Wrath because his followers would still go trough with everything. But at the end you don‘t really learn anything about what happened to the rest of his followers? The Argon still seems to exist?
Instead, now Castor and Lore are both gods and they simply pray to Zeus and he turns them back into mortals? Why would he do that, if he was the one to condemn the gods to this war in the first place?



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