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People might used to have worshipped the Olympians, but I never did. I’ll kill every last one of them to get Hephaestus back.

I used to love my Greek mythology classes until I got kidnapped and actually met some Gods. I took Hephaestus as a lover and Hades and Persephone are not all that bad, but the rest of them?

They hurt my monsters. Zeus kidnapped Hephaestus and is doing who knows what to him for making a knife when it was me that used it to kill Demeter. The Olympians took Hephaestus because they can’t even entertain the notion that a lowly half demon killed one of them.

I know why no one said anything when Zeus came to the Underworld. I know there’s a plan to get Hephaestus back. There’s also a lot I don’t know that I need to learn fast. I have this mysterious demonic form from my father that I need to learn to access. Hephaestus made all these weapons capable of taking down Olympians if they came, but I don’t know how to use them. I’m not going to get lucky again like I did with Demeter.

I have to learn all this and I have to learn it in a hurry because I know between Hades and my father, if I don’t, I’ll be grounded in my room when everyone tries to rescue my God. And I’ve got a personal beef with his father for all the hurt he did towards Hephaestus.

17% (view spoiler)[So now they have to rescue her God, who it seems doesn't need rescuing. Makes me happy he broke his ex wifes neck, I'm petty like that ;) (hide spoiler)]

29% (view spoiler)[ OMFG this is hilarious. They're talking to her dad about their sex life. And he congrats her on scarring up Kimon. Pretty crazy when her monsters are wondering what kind of crazy place hell is LOL (hide spoiler)]

59% (view spoiler)[I'm nervous! Can they trust Hera and these other Gods? I sure hope so. (hide spoiler)]

Finished (view spoiler)[SO I'm a bit conflicted about the end of this book. Personally there are a few lingering issues that I really wish would have been addressed such as the monsters going to save their monster friends from Tartarus. The same monster friends they were forced to fight and kill. It's mentioned so much in book one I thought surely this book would cover it, but nope, they are not mentioned once in this book. Also I see why so many people dislike the series or find it lacking. For me it worked because it was so short and there's only so much you can expect from short books in a trilogy. Together the books only total 650 pages which in the big picture sense is not a lot-especially considering the heroine has five mates. I did see feel a sense of disconnect and expectation that we as readers are just supposed to adapt to and I kind of hated that because I felt like I was missing out. For instance during sex the heroine acts like she's been with her mates for years and they know each other so well when that is so not the case. I could argue this book took the instalove route and everything was sped up, but as for their relationship we're basically with them all the way and I hate this forced feeling of familiarity that just doesn't wring true. On that note, I really did enjoy this series. I took everything with a grain of salt, not expecting an extremely in depth read and I think looking at it that way and less nitpicky really helped me enjoy it more. Like that last book the climax (AKA showdown) was kind of lackluster. I kept expecting some big drama or backstabbling to occur and it never did. Everything just worked out too nicely and I'm not sure how I feel about it. (hide spoiler)]

21%

(view spoiler)[ I liked the idea of the demon reveal parties they sound cool.....well if you had a good power. That clothing scene was funny. (hide spoiler)]

50%

(view spoiler)[ I like his mum. I'm shocked that they thought that the gods would help Zeus. If he is as bad as they have made him out to be then he'll have enemies all over the place. (hide spoiler)]

70%

(view spoiler)[ Well that was an interesting fight. I would have liked more of a fight from Zeus though. Love Pavlina at the end with the head. (hide spoiler)]

Finished

(view spoiler)[ I liked it and I liked it more then book 2. I would have liked it more if the series was dragged out more so we had time t process everything more but not a bad little series. (hide spoiler)]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "17% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ You do love blood shed and death. (hide spoiler)]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "29% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ Yeah that was funny. I liked her dad although he wasn't there I bet he would have been a crazy parent when she was young. (hide spoiler)]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Finished [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ Yeah it did feel a lot like that and everything went their way way to quickly. It was okay and there were some great ideas which could have been exploited more to make the series fantastic. (hide spoiler)]

Mummy's Naughty Corner wrote: "Finished

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(view spoiler)[That’s my biggest complaint too. It needed a lot more depth and pages. (hide spoiler)]