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As ancient immortals are left reeling, a modern Athena and Hermes search the world for answers in Mortal Gods, the second Goddess War novel by Kendare Blake, acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood.
Ares, god of war, is leading the other dying gods into battle. Which is just fine with Athena. She's ready to wage a war of her own, and she's never liked him anyway. If Athena is lucky, the winning gods will have their immortality restored. If not, at least she'll have killed the bloody lot of them, and she and Hermes can die in peace.
Cassandra Weaver is a weapon of fate. The girl who kills gods. But all she wants is for the god she loved and lost to return to life. If she can't have that, then the other gods will burn, starting with his murderer, Aphrodite.
The alliance between Cassandra and Athena is fragile. Cassandra suspects Athena lacks the will to truly kill her own family. And Athena fears that Cassandra's hate will get them all killed.
The war takes them across the globe, searching for lost gods, old enemies, and Achilles, the greatest warrior the world has ever seen. As the struggle escalates, Athena and Cassandra must find a way to work together. Because if they can't, fates far worse than death await.
- Sales Rank: #345932 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.21" h x 1.06" w x 5.46" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
War between gods takes backseat to emotional angst
By Kel @ Booked til Tuesday
The Goddess War trilogy sets Greek gods in a modern world that no longer believes in them. More importantly, they're all dying. Desperate for a cure, or at least a way to survive her unhappy family's death throes, Athena and her brother Hermes have teamed up with some special humans. Not a horrible premise, right? In fact, I really enjoyed the first book, Antigoddess, and I was super excited for its sequel. Key word: was.
Warning: there may be SPOILERS for Book 1.
There is a war going on between gods. Let that marinate for a moment. WAR between GODS. This is the situation, yet somehow this whole book revolves around nothing but emotional and/or relationship angst. I'm not entirely sure what the author was trying to pull off, but the end result was this: the writing, plot and characters suffered. The plot jumps around the world at lightspeed, and everything feels arbitrary and is told instead of shown.
The main characters are completely different people, and the secondary characters are little more than foils. Henry and Andy barely keep the story rooted in the normal world. Hermes is there to defuse conflict, make Athena worried and throw out the occasional line about liking "pretty boys" (which is such a 180 from his pining and grieving over the witch in Book 1, I got whiplash). Cassandra, instead of the sympathetic character she was, vacillates between two extremes: grief for her dead boyfriend and, more often, full of rage/hates everything and everyone/wants to kill all gods. She became a caricature.
Athena is almost unrecognizable. Her complicated relationship with Odysseus was amusing and enjoyable in Book 1. Now, I am not amused. Ody's former girlfriend shows up and makes a love triangle; but worse, instead of being the untouchable, mildly conflicted goddess she was in Book 1, Athena likes/loves/wants Odysseus. Odysseus loves her. There's nothing in the way. Athena accepts that she has these feelings but doesn't want to act on them. Fine, except for the fact that she barely gives a reason why. There's no "because I'm the goddess" or "because I'm having an identity crisis" or "I'm afraid destroying my goddess rules will hasten my death" or something. No, it's just, I like you, you like me, but let's not, at least for this book. The whole thing feels so contrived, which basically sums up the whole book.
Also, Athena's big "plan" was not worthy of the goddess of wisdom and battle, even one in an agitated, distracted state. It felt like lazy, contrived plotting, as if the author said, we just have to get to this point so this stuff can happen. On that note, none of the action/conflict made an impact or affected me emotionally. I wasn't worried about anyone. I didn't really care about them.
This was one of my most anticipated sequels and, while I'll probably read the next book and see how the author chooses to bring certain people back to life and/or explain the god-like powers of certain mortals, I am no longer super excited about this series.
As Lady Catherine de Bourgh would say, "I am most seriously displeased."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Blake's vivid imagery always leaves us breathless
By Maja (The Nocturnal Library)
A few years ago, when Kendare Blake first published Anna Dressed in Blood and completely won us over, I never dreamed that her books could become even better. Anna was such a spectacular debut that it left very little room for improvement. And yet here we are, in the middle of a new series that is even more beautiful, more mature, written with a surer hand and far greater control over the narrative.
Mortal Gods is exactly what the title suggests – it brings the story of Greek gods divided into two factions and warring among themselves, both groups desperately fighting for survival. Athena leads one side, our side, and Ares leads the other. Their conflicts are merciless and bloody and their only goal is to survive and get revenge.
Just because Athena, Hermes and Odysseus are on our side does not mean that they are in the right. This entire series exists in a morally gray area. Ancient Gods, no matter how well-adapted to our times, have a whole different set of values and moral principles. Human life is not as significant for them, and scruples are often just another word in the dictionary. Even mortal characters like Cassandra and Andy are reincarnations of important mortals from ancient times, and the more they remember their old lives, the more they adapt to the gods’ way of thinking.
Still, one can’t help but feel sympathy for a physically weakened Athena while she coughs out feathers from her lungs, or our poor, likeable Hermes, who eats and eats and eats, but is never full or strong like he used to be. The torture of each god is highly symbolic. For instance, according to the legend, Athena once punished her crow familiar by turning his beautiful white feathers to black and now she is tortured by feathers sprouting painfully from her body. Hermes, god of feasts and banquets (among other things) is never sated and he’s getting thinner by the day.
While Cassandra grieves and despairs, Athena and Odysseus are dancing around each other, never quite reaching a common ground. The love of these two is so painfully obvious, and yet there are so many barriers between them, far too many things that stand in the way of their true feelings, Athena’s pride among them.
Mortal Gods is even darker and bloodier than Antigoddess, which is no small thing, believe me. Blake is known for the vivid imagery she creates with seeming ease. Her descriptions are always detailed and precise, and the emotional reactions she provokes are off the charts. She always achieves the desired effect, be it sympathy, horror or even disgust.
Brava, Ms. Blake. I can’t wait for the next book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Dying and warring Gods of Olympus done young adult style
By Pabkins
Dying and warring Gods of Olympus done young adult style
Here we are back again in Mortal Gods with Athena, Cass, Hermes, Odysseus and the rest of the gang, with a few new additions. It’s been a scant few months since the climactic ending of Antigoddess and View Spoiler �
Athena what you do, you do so well
Whether it’s do something right or do something wrong – this gal doesn’t do things by halves. I like Athena – to me she is the ultimate star of the show. While the books so far really have seemed to center around both Athena and Cass. This time around I was so much more interested in Athena (likely because Cass annoyed the snot out of me). Athena has her failings as it seems the book tries to make abundantly clear that “gods” have just as many flaws as an average person, but their mistakes just tend to impact people way more. I love the struggles that we see Athena go through in trying to lead this motley group of humans and gods against the other set of gods. I adore how stubborn and strong (or even bull headed at times) she can be on some fronts but then also how vulnerable she can be in others. One particular scene with her and Hermes tweaked my heartstrings so much. While I can’t say I was entirely too happy with some of the choices she makes regarding her and Odysseus I can see where she’s coming from but still hey I’m not going to agree with her on her reasoning. Seize what you want I say!
Sometimes you just wanna smack that pouty look off someone’s face
Who? Why Cass I tell you! View Spoiler � turned Cass into this bitter anger ball. Just reading her scenes sometimes was like a trip to the dentist to have a sour tooth pulled that leaves this nasty abscess behind that you can’t treat with anything! Did she annoy me that much – yeah, she did, she really did. I’m quite sure that was the exact intention and response the author was trying to get out of me. And it worked, oh boy did it work. Cass only has one thing on her mind really and that’s revenge. In a way she is almost unrecognizable to me from the original character I knew and liked in the first book. I’m one of those readers that has a really hard time enjoying a book if I’m not enjoying reading a specific character – but luckily Cass is not the only point of view that we read from, and not everything centers around her part of the storyline. So my rating is unfortunately a direct reflection of mostly Cass. – This was still a great book and I definitely plan on reading the next one – but I can’t get over how annoyed I was most of the time and I personally don’t like to be annoyed for the bulk of a reading experience.
More Hermes, Odysseus and party please!
I really enjoyed the snippets of Hermes and Odysseus I got this time around so much so that I wish there could have been more from them. I’m thinking that we might see much more of Hermes taking the spot light in the next book but that also might be wishful thinking on my part. I found myself ultimately only really caring about Athena, Hermes and Odysseus in this book and I know some of that is because I didn’t like Cass’ attitude in Mortal Gods but I also felt like I needed more of a presence from the other secondary characters. They were so very second fiddle that I couldn’t bring myself to care much about them.
Why do second books cliff hang me so?
I’m not a fan of the second book cliffhangers. Indeed you could say I hate them. Rarely are they ever done in a way that leaves me “wanting” more. Do I want to continue reading – yes. But am I left with a feeling of dissatisfaction? – even more so yes. It is really something I see mostly in young adult books and perhaps its part of the reason why more and more lately I find myself only reading the first book in a YA series. I am not a patient person. I think there must surely be a way to avoid cliffhangers at the end of series novels.
You can smack me now for my whining – cause I still enjoyed it
Overall, this was a very enjoyable read and fast paced to book. The two major issued I pointed out are purely my own and I think many others might not have a problem at all. So don’t judge on the rating because I did literally still devour this book in a day and look forward to seeing what happens next. The writing flowed great from scene to scene without any lulls so I rarely put the book down. I adore Blake’s storytelling and her ability to make me really connect with some of her characters and her imagery continues to be top notch.
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