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Lore

from the Number One bestselling YA fantasy author

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Lore

By: Alexandra Bracken
Narrated by: Fryda Wolff
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 From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families - ancient Greek bloodlines that participate in a merciless game every seven years. A game that is about to begin again ...

For centuries, Zeus has punished the gods with a game called the Agon, which turns them mortal for one week, and at the mercy of being hunted by those with godly ambitions. Only a handful of the original Greek gods remain, the rest replaced by the mortals who killed them and ascended.

After her family's sadistic murder by a rival bloodline, Lore escapes and vows to repay her parents' sacrifice by doing one thing - surviving. For seven years, she has pushed back dark thoughts of revenge against the man responsible for their murder, a man by the name of Wrath who has attained unimaginable power. Except for one week, every seven years. A week that is fast approaching ...

When Lore comes home on the first night of the Agon to find Athena gravely wounded on her doorstep, the goddess offers her an alliance; they have a mutual enemy, after all. But as the world trembles under the force of Wrath - a god with the power to destroy all of humanity - will Lore's decision to bind her fate with Athena's come back to haunt her?

© 2021 Alexandra Bracken (P) 2020, Buena Vista Book Inc©2021 Alexandra Bracken Death & Dying Destiny Difficult Situations Literature & Fiction Multicultural Science Fiction & Fantasy Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology Emotionally Gripping Suspenseful Ancient History

Critic Reviews

Lore kept me awake far too many nights. A brilliant and breathless twist on classic mythology! (Marissa Meyer, author of The Lunar Chronicles)
A story of power and old wounds and love, all anchored by a protagonist that I cheered from the instant she appeared, fists ready and heart brave, on the page. A tale worth passing down. (Marie Lu, author of Warcross)
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Well I loved the characters and became totally invested in their journeys. It only took a while to work out who all the Gods were. Maybe I should have done some prior reading before listening!!

Character live

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Amazing Amazing !!!! loved the book !! story was great!! and not predictable. loved the narrator, she has such a good voice and does a great job.
All round good experience!!

Worth the read !!

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I was really loving this book right up till the two third’s point where something was revealed and everything because very two dimensional. It was really disappointing. The climax also felt very cringey - people stood around and did dialogue where realistically they would not have, while some characters just didn’t do anything for bits when they really should have taken action instead of waiting for their turn to speak.

I was really loving this book until I wasn’t, which was a shame. I would probably read it again, but don’t know if I would do so more than once (I want to give it the benefit of a physical book read as I do better with that medium). I would recommend, but caution to expect the second half of the book in particular to feel rough around the edges and a bit messy.

Started great, the was a let down

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I really wanted to like this book as I’m a huge mythology nerd. But the author doesn’t do a good job of initially explaining the central concept (the Avon) which makes it hard to understand all of the other plot points that depend on it.
In the end I really couldn’t get into it as it ended up feeling more about contemporary characters and their relationships than anything to do with mythological characters.

Overly complicated

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loved the narration it kept me going when parts of the story felt clunky.

loved the general concepts of the story though I was frustrated with how forced some of the storylines were.

would have loved more of Tidemaker than we got.

interesting fantasy world

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