The first book I read by this author was when I listened to an audiobook of the second one in this series, Electric Idol. And I loved it! So I was so shocked and excited when I got an ARC copy of this in the mail earlier this year. At first I worried that maybe reading wouldn’t be as good as listening, but I was wrong, because once I started this, I was sucked right in!

This story goes a little more steamy because we have three characters in this couple. Helen and Achilles and Patroclus. We’ve met Helen a little bit more I feel in the last book, but Achilles and Patroclus were newer to me. All three characters were competing to become Ares. I was totally rooting for Helen, but I also wondered if it might end up that Achilles would actually get Ares in the end because that was how it seemed things would go. I mean the challenges they had to compete in, especially the final one, were all very physical.

I would have been good with any of them winning. In fact if it had even been Patroclus, that would be okay, as long as the three of them were able to get past things and get back to being the throuple that they seemed to fit perfectly together. The competitions were all interesting, the first one a bit like that tv show my family watches, American Ninja, I think it’s called. The second one had a maze, and I loved Helen’s solution to it! The third one was just fighting, all of them at once. I guess I’d thought it might be matches set up, and only two fighting at a time, but the way it went was more chaos and led to the way things all worked out to crown a new Ares, if crowning is the correct word for this.

And oh my gosh, the steamy times with these three were so hot! I definitely think they were written in a way to get the reader squirming in their seat and feeling the steam coming off the characters and their actions. But it was more than just that which made them a great couple. We got to see how each one had their own personality and how they all fit together physically and actual relationship-wise. All I know now is that I need to back and read the first one and any novellas that go with it to make sure I know all that happened with all characters. And we’ve got a big deal coming up with outsiders factoring into future stories. I loved how the author gave us a Minotaur.

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.