📖This book is available on KU & Audible! ➡️Get KindleUnlimited | Get Audible I liked this book and where the story is going – the author has caught my attention and I really felt like I wanted to read more of her books. I did – because I finished this entire world that is currently published, and will be posting reviews of all the books in this series. This book belongs to the ‘Gods Universe’ and I highly recommend you read them in order – even though every book is a stand-alone. The Court of The Underworld #1 – Asterion was great but Ariadne less so… I haven’t read that many re-tellings of the Greek myths in a modern setting, but this wasn’t bad! I loved Asterion, he’s perfect – but sadly Ariadne just falls short for me. Don’t get me wrong, she’s got many good characteristics and she’s absolutely perfect for Asterion. The issue I have is that she’s written so epically good at what she does – you would never think she was mortal. This is a problem when said character IS “just” a mortal. Yes, she’s an assassin, she’s a great one at that – and trained kind of like the old Spartan schools where you either were the best or you died (just like in Sparta), but she’s also like five foot nothing and 100lbs – let’s try to at least be slightly realistic! There is just no way this small mortal female can do any type of hand-to-hand combat with a grown ass 6,5 foot 280lb fully trained (and we are talking trained-by-gods type of trained) man. It’s just not going to happen! That’s a “kick him in the balls and run” situation. That’s been proven several times, it’s just not physically possible. I’m all for her doing damage – and yes when she’s being a full assassin and getting the jump on people, coming out of the shadows etc etc, perfect! And I love it and yes she would definately be able to do her thing. But not if she’s the full-on focus! And this just kept happening… She was written to be so good, she’s better than Gods and Superheroes, and that got to me a little bit. It was just “too good” you know? The other thing that brings the book down is, and this is a repeating problem in the series by the way, and that is the editing. Now, the editing… it’s not terrible…but it’s not very good, and it could be miles better. There are consistently missing words, way more than there should be allowed to be. By that I mean when I am on double digits in a book, that’s way too many. And that’s for each book, not the whole series. There is also the problem of sentences starting with the FMC name again and again. Just a paragraph under or on the same page. This is a big no-no, and it gets annoying. It’s not a good…
