Description:
As an Olympic messenger, suburban Aussie girl
Ophelia Lind is used to being at the beck and call of the gods. But when
gorgeous demigod Aden moves into her neighbourhood and starts taking advantage
of her services, Ophelia believes life could not get any worse. She's about to be
proven very wrong.
Ophelia tries to
enjoy a normal, everyday life while running messages for the Greek gods – but
without warning an odious creature - evil incarnate - begins to stalk her. As a
messenger dealing with the all-powerful and sometimes frightening gods, Ophelia
is accustomed to adventures and scrapes. But this is different. Even Aden, who
is madly and deeply in love with Ophelia, finds it difficult to protect her.
Suddenly Ophelia is in a battle for survival and begins to question everything
– her upbringing, her identity, and her true feelings for the alluring and
entirely frustrating Aden.
My Review:
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ophelia
is the messenger of the gods. But not
just the Olympians like you think. No,
we are talking about every form of mythos:
Greek, Celtic, Norse, etc. Also,
it shows what a great amount of traveling she does. With that in mind, it is amazing that they
haven’t killed her through exhaustion.
I
loved how she had rules against dating the gods, or pretty much having any form
of relationship with them. Except for
Zeus and Hera. Actually, those would
seem to be the last gods that I’d want to have a relationship with. Let’s be honest, and think about it. Why in the world would you want to be friends
with horny-cheat-on-his-wife King of the Olympians and his
jealous-turn-you-into-some-animal wife.
Uhm, no thank you! But it does
make her really cool that she knows how to work the gods as well as have
relationships with some of them.
Aden
was such a yummy character. As god of
the lustful hunt, I died laughing at his multiple attempts to seduce Ophelia…
Plus I did laugh a lot about his changes, because they seemed so out of
character for him. One of the only
things that didn’t’ really change was the fact that he still stayed an arrogant
ass, but everyone needs those moments.
Pravus…
Let me just say “eeeewwwwww!” He was
such a creepy, sadistic character, I’ll admit that I had a hard time entering
my pitch-black bedroom… and when I did, I turned on the lights quickly. So glad with what happened to him!
I
loved the mix of the mythology that blended so well with the created mythology
of Ms. Crake. There was generally a good
& believable flow to the myths, gods/goddesses, and the combination of
both.
Now,
I did have an issue with the actual flow of the novel. It could be just how it was formatted for the
e-reader, but I swear that when there was a dividing point in the chapter I
didn’t realize it until I was thoroughly confused and had to go back and
re-read it to figure out what happened.
I do
want to remind readers that this book is set primarily in Australia, and since the
author is from there as well, the spelling might not be the common “American”
spelling of words. Also, the wording and
the slag are not going to be necessarily familiar to us Americans. But don’t let that hold you back from reading
this book!
Overall,
this is a really good book, and I definitely recommend this book!
Happy Reading!
Cana
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