#dark Olympus

[sarafangirlart]

What could this mean?…

Cast your bets who’s Hermes gonna get shipped with?

[isabellbartnicki]

The High Priestess

[polycraftory]

August 2024 Reads

This Month's Favs

Gabe @words-writ-in-starlight (wordswritinstarlight on Storygraph) : The Husky & His White Cat Shizun (2ha) Volume 6 by Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat. Runner up is the whole Murderbot series by Martha Wells (on a re-listen). They refuse to pick favorites.

Nic (businesswife) : The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco for fav novel and Re-Living My Life with A Boyfriend who Doesn't Remember Me by Gin Shirakawa was their favorite manga.

Meghan (edgybutfemme): The Husky & His White Cat Shizun was also probably my fav, with the final Guardian by Priest as a very close second. Literally any month I read a 2ha volume it'll be hard to pick a different fav book.

We had an absolutely wild August, but thankfully we managed to fit some reading in (especially devouring some of the manga we got at AnimeNYC)!

You can find the reviews for all of these on our individual Storygraph accounts. You can look us up by the names at the top of each of our graphics, or find the links on our website polycraftory.com (I'm not linking them because tumblr hates external links!)

We'll also be making video reviews for some of our favorites soon. You can find both a spoiler free pitch video and a full review with some spoilers on our TikTok & Youtube right now for The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller. We'll also be posting videos about Dark Restraint / The Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert in the next few days.

[virgilean]

Books Read in 2024: Neon Gods by Katee Robert

"If we were different people in different circumstances, I would get down on my knees and beg you to stay at the end of the winter. I would move heaven and earth and the Underworld itself to keep you with me."

[alice3876]

My all-time favorite authors

Holly Black

Brigid Kemmerer

Stephanie Garber

Katee Robert

Amanda Hocking

Rick Riordan

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

It's a terrible thing not to be wanted.

Katee Robert, Neon Gods (Hades)

[villainzdoitbetter]

Relationship map for Dark Olympus through Radiant Sin (without spoilers for RS)

[sincerely-geminixo]

[viscountessevie]

The way the events between the Dark Olympus books flow so well is brilliant. Katee does a great recap but it's better to read them in order

*looks at myself like in The Office for skipping Neon Gods*

It's also really interesting to see the contrast between the Demeter sisters as heroines of their own books.

Psyche is such a mood with this opening line: 'Another night, another party I desperately don’t want to attend'

[readtilyoudie]

I love my body. I’ve fought so incredibly hard to love my body, even if some days that feels like an ambition instead of truth. I’m still painfully aware that not everyone feels the same.

Electric Idol (Dark Olympus, #2) by Katee Robert

[sarafangirlart]

I like how your focused on the dark Olympus book series of calling out Poseidon and Icarus and Medusa and Calupso… meanwhile I’m looking so disturbed at the fact the author is going to apparently write a romantic relationship between Ariadne and the Minotaur.

-Shrimp Anon

Most of the pairings are absurd lol

[daisyishedwig]

So the biggest problem I think that Learn My Lesson has (and possibly the other Wicked Villains books (excluding A Worthy Opponent because it's a masterpiece)) is that the plot should center around the relationship, because there's not much plot aside from that, and yet there is a vibe that there's more going on, Hades is making more plans, but we don't know what it is and I am 75% of the way through the book. There's an implication that Wicked Villains Hades intends to kill Zeus, but given that I've read Neon Gods, I know that doesn't happen, because hes still alive for Dark Olympus Hades to kill him at whatever future point the Dark Olympus series begins.

Also, this is definitely just that Katee didn't have a completely clear picture of Olympus when she was writing Wicked Villains but it's so obvious how underdeveloped that part of Hercules and Hades backstory is. And not just the implication that both WV Hades and DO Hades believe the other to be dead, but the fact that Hercules is surprised that his father could resort to murder, implying that Noone has yet realized that Zeus killed his first Hera and that Hercules/Helen's mom is still alive when Hercules flies to Carver City which simply can't be true because I swear Helen mentions her dying when she was like 17 and Hercules is younger than her.

Also, Helen and Aris have yet to be mentioned, so it seems as though in this early iteration of Olympus and Zeus's family that his only children were Perseus and Hercules.

Like I know that she's by no means a fabulous writer, but she is a good one, and it's wild to see these early stories that don't quite line up with the level of plot she includes in Dark Olympus.

Also, I'm just hella confused on the timeline so if anyone has mocked one up, please let me know in case I'm simply misremembering.

[polycraftory]

Meghan discusses some of her favorite queer and polyamorous romance books! Since she mostly reads series, she gives overviews / recs for four series that she's (mostly) read this year: Reaper Series by Rin Chupeco, The Last Binding by Freya Marske, Sex Wizards by Alethea Faust, and the Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert.

If you want to read Meghan's book reviews, you can check out their Storygraph account. They have reviews for most of these books on there already (and if they don't have one up for one of the older books, feel free to put in a request and they'll post one)!

This video was too powerful to upload directly to Tumblr, so we've brought it over from Youtube so it'd still be play-able right here.

[deiumjeito]

aesthetic | Radiant Sin - Katee Robert

[aizel-kon]

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[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Dark humor has kept me going through some nightmarish experiences, and it will continue to do so.

Katee Robert, Cruel Seduction