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Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe
1.0
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

 This series personally isn't for me. It's too catty and Persephone comes off so infantilized. I don't like the dynamic with Hades either. He gotta be her daddy in both ways, iykyk. It's fun to put a modern spin on Greek deities, but they act as if they're in a reality show. I was waiting for a goddess to crack someone over the head with a wine bottle. 

Also, a character biting their lip has never annoyed me as it does here. And how is Apollo walking around like life's sweet???
a whole rapist acting like nothing's wrong.


I didn't enjoy the first book, but I wanted to give it a fair chance by reading the second. I thought Hades questioning his attraction to Persephone was well done. The color direction is still great, and the expressions are funnier in this volume. A part of me feels conflicted rating this so lowly because it's coming from my personal enjoyment not so much storytelling abilities.