Daughters of Olympus

By Hannah Lynn,

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A daughter pulled between two worlds and a mother willing destroy both to protect her...
Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.
Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. After an act of devastating violence, though, she…

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1 author picked Daughters of Olympus as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is one of my all-time favorite retellings.

I love how Lynn shows you the story first through Demeter’s eyes, then Persephone’s. The vastly different perspectives of mother and daughter resonated.

But my favorite thing about this book was the unique and empathetic picture it drew of Hades. Lynn managed not only to challenge my idea of the goddesses but of the god at the heart of the story as well. Unexpected but appreciated. 

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