That is, until an old friend and a goddess come seeking aid, and she must choose whether or not to insert herself back into the situation that killed her parents and two sisters. Lore, however, has escaped the deathly Agon. Once a mortal kills a god, that mortal gains the god's power and strength, and because of human greed, the cycle can never end. She is haunted by the Agon: an event that takes place every seven years, which forces nine gods to roam the Earth as mortals while being hunted by mortals. Lore is a standalone contemporary fantasy that follows the adventures of a young girl named Lore, the last mortal descendant of the House of Perseus.
By reading in bits and pieces, though, I eventually became enthralled by the convoluted world Bracken had woven through the pages. That time, I had closed the book, taken a few deep breaths, and left it to collect dust on my bookshelf. The immediate, heated setting of a boxing ring, combined with a plethora of Greek terms, was enough to thoroughly overwhelm me. 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.Sometimes the best books do not need to be love at first sight-it definitely wasn’t with this one! When I turned to page one of Lore by Alexandra Bracken, I was immediately blown away, but not in the best sense of the term.
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. After her family's sadistic murder by a rival bloodline, Lore escapes and vows to repay her parents' sacrifice by doing one thing - surviving. Only a handful of the original Greek gods remain, the rest replaced by the mortals who killed them and ascended. 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. 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. From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption.
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