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by Alexandra Bracken
Genuinely so fun!
I'm a bit burnt out on Greek Mythology retellings, which says a lot as someone who has a major life long fixation on Greek Mythology (I love you Jennifer Saint and Madeline Miller but lawd there's so much) but this was a fully original story, and while the original gods are in the story to an extent, it's not really in an old Mythology way.
Premise is that the original 12 were exiled from Olympus, are made human every 7 years for a Hunt, and if you kill a god, you become that god. There are ancient houses (family lines from the original heroes - Jason, Odysseus, Heracles, etc) who participate and it's an all out war for 7 days every 7 years.
MC is the last of her bloodline and stopped participating in the hunt when her entire family was murdered by the now-Ares. She winds up not-on-purpose teaming up with her old BFF from a rival House, one of the Original 12, and her extremely human roommate.
It's fun! It's highstakes adventure set in NYC! There's an underground fighting ring that is never mentioned after the first chapter! There's a whole political set up for KILLING ACTUAL LITERAL GODS. There's SO much civilian casualties that are just glossed over! There's manipulation! Gay love that develops from enemies to the lovers part in under 24h (true to life)!
it was good actually! I had fun reading it and I liked the way things were wrapped up, even if it was a BIIIIT polished for everything that happened.
I'm a bit burnt out on Greek Mythology retellings, which says a lot as someone who has a major life long fixation on Greek Mythology (I love you Jennifer Saint and Madeline Miller but lawd there's so much) but this was a fully original story, and while the original gods are in the story to an extent, it's not really in an old Mythology way.
Premise is that the original 12 were exiled from Olympus, are made human every 7 years for a Hunt, and if you kill a god, you become that god. There are ancient houses (family lines from the original heroes - Jason, Odysseus, Heracles, etc) who participate and it's an all out war for 7 days every 7 years.
MC is the last of her bloodline and stopped participating in the hunt when her entire family was murdered by the now-Ares. She winds up not-on-purpose teaming up with her old BFF from a rival House, one of the Original 12, and her extremely human roommate.
It's fun! It's highstakes adventure set in NYC! There's an underground fighting ring that is never mentioned after the first chapter! There's a whole political set up for KILLING ACTUAL LITERAL GODS. There's SO much civilian casualties that are just glossed over! There's manipulation! Gay love that develops from enemies to the lovers part in under 24h (true to life)!
it was good actually! I had fun reading it and I liked the way things were wrapped up, even if it was a BIIIIT polished for everything that happened.