Lore

by Alexandra Bracken

scooping the necklace up and tucking it into the back pocket of her jeans

Fighting in jeans? Yikes

A feather fallen from a wing is not lost, Gil had told her, but free.

Lol

Of course, that number might dwindle further to Artemis if Lore didn’t leave now and find Athena some other help, but this—this was useful information.

This sentence is a mess

Dozens of little girls, all massacred by the goddess who had once been their patron and protector.

This book has a hard-on for female tragedy

The candles in the hallway were burning low, flickering out.

Why so antiquated? this is modern nyc? the ceremony isn't happening in the hallway

LORE HAD BEEN RAISED with a blade in her hand.

Eyeroll

“There were never any guards, Melora,” a ragged voice said. Philip rose, clutching the knife in one hand and the wound on his head with the other.

They just left him on the floor...

Another arrow appeared in the sliver of blue and released without so much as a whisper—ripping through the air, flying straight toward the back of Castor’s neck.

Why not him first

“I know fear,” she told him. “I know it better than my own reflection.”

Yeah ok

They rejoined Castor and Athena at the cover’s hatch, which now looked like a half-crushed aluminum can.

None of this setting has been well described

Sometimes, he’d said, the braver thing is to accept help when you’ve been made to believe you shouldn’t need it.

What? Fake deep

“No!” Lore knocked the blade out of Iro’s hand,

how? What?

“A léaina?” Castor guessed. “The Kadmides might have beat us to the punch again.”

What are either of these...ugh

What the hell does that mean?

Me this entire book...

The new god

Just say his name. Stop using this

The new god’s skin had turned gray and clammy. All Lore now saw in his face was fear. Athena stared down at the Reveler, her expression remote. “Cas!” Lore called again. The new god was within feet of them,

Calling two characters the same nickname, what could go wrong? This is like saying "the man" in a scene with two men.

There would always be a man deciding my fate, whether it was my father, an archon, or a husband.”

This book rebuilds an entire modern mythos of feminist horrors if only to look the better for knocking them down. Im tired of "feminist" books set it modern times fighting the same battles that women ages ago suffered through and won. There are plenty of modern feminist struggles to draw from. Have we made no progress?

And fell.

What just happened this entire chapter

“I can do whatever I want,” Lore said coldly. “But you’re not,” he said. “I don’t believe this is really what you want—to kill people, to be a hunter.”

I wouldn't presume to know this much abput my own brother if i hadn't seen him in 8 years

aegis.

Embarassed to say i still have no idea what this is

“It is a shame you did not even possess the courage to drive the blade through your heart.”

Lol

Power does not transform you, he’d said. It only reveals you.