
By: Kaitlin Bevis
Series: Daughters of Zeus #4
My Copy: Netgalley.com
The BookWhisperer's Rating:
Being
perfect isn’t easy, but Aphrodite is determined to live up to the ideal. So
when Poseidon asks her to investigate strange happenings on several cruise
ships, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. Demigods are going missing,
and no one remembers them having been on board. Aphrodite charms herself into
the best room on the ship, prepared to investigate in style. Unfortunately, the
room belongs to the one man immune to her charm.
Adonis.
When
Aphrodite realizes that he could be the next target, her investigation gets
more complicated. Worse, whoever is responsible for the missing demigods
charmed the passengers and armed them with long-forgotten weapons designed to
kill gods. When the ship goes dark, Aphrodite and Adonis have to work together
to discover who is behind the mayhem before Poseidon decides their ship, and
every charmed and armed human on it, are more trouble than they’re worth.
Aphrodite picks up right where The Iron Queen left off but from
Aphrodite’s point of view. Now, if my
memory serves me correctly, Aphrodite was one of the main characters in the
last books and was a key player against Persephone because she was made by Zeus
and under his control, so initially I didn’t like her.
However this book touches on the suffering that Aphrodite went
through while under Zeus’s spell and the fact that she had no control over any
of her actions and it made me realize that she wasn’t a jerk of a goddess – she
really was a nice girl (well, goddess.)
Writing this story from Aphrodite’s POV allows us to know her general
concern regarding the missing demigods, the length that she will go to save
them, her comradely with her fellow god and goddesses, and her allegiance to
Persephone.
Without spoiling anything, I will say that I was very surprised
how this book turned out. There were a
few twist that I saw coming but one big one that I did not. Bevis sure did keep me at the edge of my seat;
engrossed in the story, and worried about how this was all going to play out.
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