May’s FYA Book Club Pick

Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

The Greek gods are just as messy as you might expect: Hades is a lonely king, beset by traumatic nightmares of his youth. His brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, are a bossy man-child and a dumb frat boy, respectively. Artemis is in constant competition with her brother, Apollo, who is a narcissistic abuser. Aphrodite can’t stand that someone might be more beautiful than her, and she blackmails her son Eros into doing her dirty work.

And then there’s Persephone, who’s only recently moved to Mount Olympus from the Mortal Realm. She’s a naive young woman, thanks to the helicopter parenting of her mother Demeter, and far too trusting of people who would use her naivety for their own personal gain or for ill. But she knows there’s something different about Hades. Or, at least, she thinks there might be.

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