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Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

11 reviews

celery's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Murder, Sexual assault, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Stalking, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Rape, and Toxic relationship

kathryn_reads_paiges's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

anitairene's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Technically I read the webtoon before this was published, but this is easy way to mark as read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Torture

eahoffm2's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Alcohol, Abandonment, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, and Drug use

fremzz's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

Spoiler

I didn’t really know how to rate this.
One one hand I thought art style was beautiful and I liked how each god was a color and I did laugh out loud a few times.
But the main relationship irks me a lot
I understand that it is a hades and Persephone retelling and all but why did Persephone have to be so baby like? It literally feels like this grown man is hitting on a child. Which I know she technically is not but she doesn’t act very mature either so it feels weird
Idk. It wasn’t bad by any means but I don’t like relationships with a dynamic so… iffy.
2.75 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol

jeswil62's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Such a promising start to a Hades and Persephone retelling 👀 I was worried this would be overhyped, but I really enjoyed it. The arts colorful and well-done, the story has a nice balance of humor and drama, and Persephone is charming. Definitely keep the content warnings in mind before picking up (and the author does an excellent job making you aware of cw)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Drug use

ericalynn91's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

One of many in a series. I’m so delighted to read this!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Mental illness, Drug use, and Alcohol

anapthine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Incest, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Cursing, and Bullying

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

jesswp's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexism, Sexual assault, Rape, and Kidnapping

collreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

no rating (at least for now) I loved this introduction to the series. The art is incredibly beautiful. I want to buy prints of some of the images and hang them on my wall. I am loving the characters, especially Artemis and Hades. Though Hera made a very small appearance, It appears like she will be a "good" character, which is refreshing after all the evil Hera takes I've watched/read. A small critique - Persphone is characterized as the "young, innocent, naive, girl who moves to the big city and is incredibly hot but doesn't know it". She is oversexualized and infantilized simultaneously - gives me a bit of an ick. Hoping her characterization moves away from that.  

For now, I'm not sure what to rate the novel, I loved reading it but It was so short. I didn't get enough. I wish the volume was doubled. Season 1 is over 1000 pages according to storygraph/goodreads, and 380 pages felt like nothing. I'm going to continue with w/ the series as the editions come out in print. looking forwards to volume 2 in july :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Kidnapping