Rating: 4 stars
Adult - Spice: enemies to lovers
Genre: Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Mythology, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Urban Fantasy
Tags: Greek Gods, Gods, Goddesses, Magic, Trials, Retelling, Book Review
The Holy Bloodlines Book 1
Sera is days away from her 18th birthday when she will officially be an adult and able to be free. Only the Elysean Trials are about to start as well. And by some trick of the Gods, they pick her for the trials. Now she is with sycophants and Elyseans whom she doesn’t want to have anything to do with. But she is stuck with now way out.
Mythology retellings are one of the things that I love to read. Especially when someone adds a new spin on the world. In this story, the Demi-gods consider themselves immortal even though that doesn’t mean that they don’t die. The story kept me turning the page, as I couldn’t put it down to see what would happen next. I loved reading this as I feel like it was like someone getting the golden ticket from the Chocolate Factory, meets the Goblet of Fire with Gods and Magic mixed in. Sera is brilliant and snarky with great dialog. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series, The Elysian Academy of Darkness and Secrets.
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Pages: 564
Read: Digital
From: Bought but can get via Kindle Unlimited
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“Welcome to the Elysean city of Idaea, where magic lingers in the air and those who wield it are considered gods. Grab a drink, sit back and relax: the world’s most important event in the last 4 years is about to begin…
Sera Sinclair never believed that Elyseans, descendants of the Olympian gods, are worthy of worship. She knows exactly how un-godlike they can be, so she plans to stay far away from them for the rest of her life.
But the deadly Elysean Trials are right around the corner, and when they unleash their strange birds with crystal eyes to choose “worthy mortals” as candidates, one of them chooses Sera.
She tries to refuse, tries to run away, but she’s forced into the Trials anyway. For the next three weeks, she has to live with them in their fancy Palace, and compete in their impossible challenges just to survive.
The other mortals are against her. The Elyseans despise her—especially Shade, who comes from Hades’s bloodline, and loves to remind her how perfectly powerless against them she is…at first.
But Sera has her stories. Growing up among the worst of Elysean fanatics, she knows every god story better than most. And Shade, with storms for eyes and darkness at his fingertips, will break his own rules for Sera. The more they get to know each other, the faster they turn from enemies, to unlikely friends—and so much more.
Nothing in the Palace is what it seems, and maybe even her past isn’t quite what she remembers, either. But one thing is certain: her life is not the only thing Sera stands to lose in these Trials. Her heart is in just as much danger.
***This book contains very explicit romantic scenes.”
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