A review by ravensandlace
The Immortal Games by Annaliese Avery

4.0

Title: The Immortal Games

Author: Annaliese Avery

Genre: YA Mythology

Format: paperback library book

Series: NA

Star Rating: 4 stars

tw: death, blood, eyes being plucked out, drowning, burns, slavery, extreme grief, fire, murder, ship wrecks, light body horror, animal death

If you put Hades in a book, I will most likely love it. That is just simply facts. I am just a really big Hades fan girl and Hades was so amazing in this. I like the way the author made him into a very caring guy, who cared a lot about humans. He was such a kind and compassionate person. It would be hard not to love him. I was totally in love with him from the minute he was on the page. 

I enjoyed the concept of what was essentially a Hunger Games book but with ancient Greek gods. The concept was unclear, however. I’m not sure what the history was behind the games, like how they came to be, or were they always a thing? I’m not sure why the Gods did these games, nor am I sure how the game works, especially on the gods' end. But I enjoyed the ride nonetheless once I stopped questioning it all. 

Ara was a great main character. I was surprised by how much she grew during the Games considering she was basically a teenager. She went from a pretty hardened teen, full of grief, to someone willing to let love and forgiveness in to her heart. Sure, there were some parts she drove me nuts in, but I remembered that she was a teenager and teenagers do things that drive me nuts.

Overall, this was a good book. I could tell it was written for a young teenager, which is fine. I think this would be a good book for those interested in mythology and want to start the journey of that. It has a lot of info about the gods so you don’t have to know them super well to understand who they are. Overall, not a bad book.