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Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
3.5
adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I want to start this off by saying take whatever expectations you have of this book and throw it away. Was this book well written? Not by a long shot, but did it have me cracking up almost every chapter? Yes! When I first started this book I was really thrown off guard by using modern slang terms of “bestie” and “apocalyptic core”. I almost DNF’d for that reason because I’m not someone who typically likes that in books. However for some reason I was intrigued and just kept going because even though it was definitely cringey at times I was honestly having a great time reading it. I think a lot of that enjoyment came from realizing that this book is just not taking itself too seriously and felt like watching reality TV where it’s not great but you’re honestly loving every episode? Overall I enjoyed the characters and the twist on Greek mythology. I could definitely pick out the twists and what was going on with the plot as it was pretty predictable. I did dock this stars because of the writing, the author likes to say something that should be read sarcastically but then would put the like actual meaning or what’s happening in parentheses next to it which every now and then was funny but it was happening almost every page which was just too much. At the end this was a fun read in between other series, if you want a laugh pick this up but seriously just lower all expectations because it’s not what it seems. And I will definitely be picking up the next book to read.