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Heart on Fire by Amanda Bouchet
2.0

This series is... I don’t know... ok. I really like the plot, the use of mythology, and the world building but I find the two main characters insufferable. She has approximately 15 “who am I and how do I use magic” epiphanies in this book, each one of them indistinguishable from the next, so the only reason I knew the final one would be the epiphany that stuck is because there was only about 12 pages left. Also, the romance seems like a good partnership in the last two books but I still can’t accept how rapey he was in the first book so I’ve continued to dislike him throughout. It was a fun recap of Greek mythology and the games in the second book totally deserve their own series, but otherwise most of this is a hard pass.