#blood of hercules

[krmdoodles]

My book art typically doesn’t do well here but I decided to doodle Patro and Achilles from Blood of Hercules <3

Also the blood of Hercules hate train is craazy, ts was funny asl even if it wasn’t written amazingly n had some cringe dialog, the mc was actually funny unlike half the booktok romantasy mcs 🙅‍♀️ if you hate it enough to post about it everywhere I’m convinced you didn’t listen to the audio book bc even if you didn’t like the writing, the narrators saved it 👅

[wordsmithic]

Anglophone Greek Myth retellings demand money from you, and then they have this much nonsense in just one page......

1. Patroclus' name is shortened to "Patro" and the writer believes it to be the coolest name. Meanwhile it's like shortening "George" to "Geor" 😂

2. He's also called "Sex" and "The Son of Sex" which sound weird even in English. Idk if it's supposed to come from the Latin "sextus" but in any case the logic and the sound are horrible.

3. Why is Patroclus adjacent with anything Spartan, and even called Spartan?? And his House is Spartan. Perhaps he was born in this life as a Spartan (whatever that means) but og Patroclus was characteristically not Spartan. Do Anglophone writers die when they write about other Greek cities except Sparta, Athens and Thebes?? Genuine question because I don't know at this point. Would it kill the author to have here the name of the region Patroclus is from?

Actually I even doubt that the author did a basic Google search for the origins of the character who inspired her. Not to mention she uses "Spartan" like it's a faction or a family, as if Sparta and Spartan people are not real today.

4. Nemean jaguar?? (as in, from Nemea, Greece). Is "Nemea" another gang so all their animals are described by Nemean? I doubt it, cause the phrasing "Animal Protector: Nemean Jaguar" makes it look like "Nemean" is the animal's origin. Has future Greece been populated by a distinctly American animal? This is probably a play on "Nemean Lion" and it sounds quite stupid.

Excuse my harshness. I don't speak like this to writers I consult. BUT this is a published work??? And hear this: The problem is not the fantasy/futuristic setting or any other creative thing the writer has thought. But there are elements of a real culture there, and they're written like shit. If one page is like this, I can't imagine how nonsensical the whole work is. And she wants us to pay for this book??

How do you spend months or years writing and then publishing something for money without getting it fact-checked?? How can you just write nonsense and sell it as if Greeks don't exist out there and as if your audience is stupid?

Writers who don't want to write elements of another culture accurately are like the comedians who complain they can't do comedy anymore because of "cancel culture".

Anyway if you don't want to end up writing a fuckfest of idiocy, please let me (or someone else) be your Greek Cultural Sensitivity reader because we Greeks are ddyyyyiiing out here with all the bullshit we see every day 🫠

[withswords]

if you gave blood of hercules 5 stars the government should test your house for lead free of charge

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Can't pretend I didn't enjoy watching this salty, salty rant! Turns out the book is even worse than I expected, not just for cultural reasons, but because it fails to be a good book, in general 😖 Why are sooo many people buying this??

[kwilber-art]

The Blood of Hercules gang

📚: blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mass

[la-era-atomica]

*Putting on my tinfoil hat* The reason Blood of Hercules is bad because it's not meant to be read. It's meant to be bought by a popular tiktok influencers, put it in a tiktok with jalapeño emojis, and thrown into a dusty closet.

[akhillaous]

So blood of Hercules is fucking awful

[proceduralbob]

The devil has a pretty face, and humanity is going to hell for worshipping it.

Blood of Hercules, Jasmine Mas

[monkeyfishgirl]

The fact that she uses 'venomous' correctly is sending me

[imaginejolls]

sometimes, reading a bad book is good for the soul

[relovaaa]

Hey gang. What the fuck. Is this shit.

[s4f3r]

i was ten years old, banging my wrists against rocks to get out of ropes

[curiouscalamitys]

Okay, so, I already had low expectations for Blood of Hercules, as many reviews I'd read had said it was poorly written. I was not expecting it to begin with the pov of a 10-year old foster girl living in a trailer park in Minnesota with foster parents that make and sell moonshine...

Also, if Augustus is meant to be her love interest, as Ares' heir, she is currently 11 and he is in his 20's...

[delusionalrobot]

genuinely feel like im losing my mind reading blood of hercules…. this was written by a person, went through an editor (presumably but im not fully convinced), and then somehow got published and people give it 5 star reviews on good reads despite it being utter dog shit

[dauntless-dean]

Thank god for public libraries, I’m so glad I didn’t spend money for Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas. Like I’ve seen it on booktok a few times, added it to my TBR and eventually read it but holy shit I’ll never get that time back. Like it definetly could be worse but also I feel like this isn’t good enough for published work.

Actually, having unfortunately finished it idk if I’m happy that it’s over or sad that I wasted my time with this.

Like I have so many more thoughts (all negative) but I don’t want to give this book more energy than I already have

[wordsmithic]

I need someone I can express my horrified awe at Blood of Hercules with. Not only did Mas poorly blend Onyx Path’s Scion Second Edition with Garth Ennis’s The Boys, she fucking threw Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld series and Harry Potter fanfic in there!

Rant freely! I don't want to read this book - unless there are many requests for it - but I am morbidly excited to learn what other stupid things the author has done 😂 I'm not familiar with the Onyx Path’s Scion Second Edition or The Boys, sadly