Brimming with delicious irony and romance, Jasmine Mas' sprightly and bold reimagining of the Hercules myth casts the famous Greek hero in female form, arming her with all the sly wit you could hope for.
Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made, immortality is won, and even a god can die…
Alexis Hert isn’t a hero, and she certainly isn’t a god. All she’s ever been is a survivor.
But the Fates disagree.
When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she’ll have to do more than merely survive.
Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality.
But immortality is a privilege, one earned in the crucible of the academy, where the heroes are villains and classrooms battlegrounds. While gladiators Achilles and Patro, her demanding mentors, hone her into a warrior, Augustus and Kharon, her professors and the brooding heirs to the underworld, haunt her steps and her thoughts.
Because where there are gods, there are bound to be monsters, and there is more than one hunting Alexis.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008744427
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 720 g
Dimensions: 240 x 159 x 45 mm
Born on a dystopian earth set in the future, Alexis is desperate to keep her brother alive. Yet things unravel when she discovers she is a child of the gods and is sent to the Spartan War Academy.
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Really really loved this book! Couldn’t put it down. Can’t wait for the second book!
As an absolute nerd of Greek and Roman Mythology, I think I wanted to love this, but found it's liberties of the mythologies it took too distracting to truly enjoy. I think this is a good fix for those looking to... More
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