by Katee Robert
Book: Dark Olympus #5
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Pub Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Adult, Romance, Greek Mythology, Retelling
Format: Print
Source: Bought
Book links: Goodreads Amazon
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband.
And the
one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty,
and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy
number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new
husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in
this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet.
Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to
put his new wife in her place. Her ex, Adonis, seems like he'll do the trick.
It doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous in the way of fallen angels, either.
The only problem with using seduction as a weapon? Hearts are all too quick to
get involved. With Hephaestus and Aphrodite trading venomous strikes that feel
a whole lot like foreplay, lines become blurred and emotions entangled. But a
broken heart may be the least of their worries. With unrest in Olympus reaching
new heights, these bedroom games may have deadly consequences for themselves,
their city, and everyone they've come to love.
My Review: This one to me, was a hot mess. Compared to the others in the series, this one was my least favorite thus far.
The beginning was boring and overly detailed in ways that it felt droned out and gave me a headache. From Hephaestus complaining to having to marry Aphrodite now that he's in this new role/power. To Aphrodite complaining in her own way to the both of them jabbing at each other. That's all just in the very start of it too. I get it, political and being of the 13. Things are just done a certain way/expected. But it felt just way too much for the start.
I tried to push past that and I barely made it halfway. The numerous POV was a lot for this pairing. I didn't need so many and this book seemed more heavy on politics than the others have.
This book for many more reasons, just wasn't it for me. I'm not sure what happened in the thought process for this one, but the other books were much much much better than what this was.
It ended up being a DNF for me.
