Laurens.Little.Library’s Reviews > Blood of Hercules > Status Update

The multiple mentions out of nowhere about Medusa being in prison have the subtlety of a sledgehammer 🫠🫠🫠

Let me get this straight. There’s a population issue with the Spartans. And an issue with the number of female god-babies being born.

But there’s a massive annual gladiatorial fight to the death for all 19-year-olds, followed by a year-long, prove-you’re-worthy-by-staying-alive?

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Also: while I believe that kids who grow up in messed-up homes, poverty, and daily abuse by their parents do indeed need to grow up fast, I can only suspend my disbelief to a point.

I don’t care how precious Alexis is as an 11-year-old. Her thoughts are that of a fully grown, fully cooked adult.

= more dissonance within the novel that just gnaws on me

thousand of people…like this book?

The info dump right at the start made me go cross-eyed. I’m still confused—by more than just the world. (Which is a strange combination of extremely 2024 language, but takes place 70-some years in the future.) Mas cherry picks the fantastical elements, and what we’re left with is little cohesion.

Points for dark, nihilistic humour though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯