All's Fair in Love and War: Athena's Tale by Alicia Fields

Passionate, inspiring, and full of adventure, this is Athena's tale. In a time when a girl's place is at home, Athena has been raised wild and free, and resents the limits she's facing. Her blossoming womanhood makes it difficult to indulge her tomboyish ways and she can't understand why women allow men to control their lives. If Athena married anyone, it would be Amoni, the boy from the forge, whose kiss has made her finally feel what it's really like to be a woman.

Meh, it was all right. I like the concept: taking the stories of the greek myths and making them "real." But, this one just didn't do anything for me. I'll still keep reading the books though.

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Persphones' Story

Aphrodite's Story

Grade: C-

Love Underground: Persephone's Tale by Alicia Fields

Young Persephone is the most beautiful maiden in Hellas. But all the boys are scared away by her mother, Demeter, whose mysterious powers must have come from the gods. So Persephone keeps her distance, and spends her days living a sheltered life. Then one day, Hades-the dreaded lord of the dead-sees Persephone. Enchanted, he whisks her deep into his dark realm. At first, she rejects him-but Hades is wealthy, intelligent, and powerful. He courts Persephone as no man has ever dared before and reveals to her, in the rumored "land of the dead," a world more wondrous than she'd ever imagined-one where she may just discover a passion greater than life itself.

This author has taken the Greek myths and wrote their stories as if they were mortal beings. If the first book of The goddesses Series, she writes about Persephone and Hades.

In this book, she writes how Demeter lets Persephone run wild. However, she doesn't want Persephone to be courted or married. She tells Persephone men are basically scum. Persephone is kidnapped by Hades it's with him she experiences freedom her mother never allowed her before. In the end, she must choose living with her mother or living with man she's grown to love.

I enjoyed reading this book. It basically retells the myth so you understand it. What I thought was a different twist is that the author writes about the characters as mortal beings. I give it a C+