Olympus Bound
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4.6 • 34 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
To save her father Zeus, king of the Gods, Selene must leave her adopted Manhattan home and travel to Mount Olympus to defeat the cult that seeks to destroy the Greek pantheon in the concluding volume of this modern day "lively re-imaging of classical mythology." (Deborah Harkness)
Summer in New York: a golden hour on the city streets, but a dark time for Selene. She's lost her home and the man she loves.
A cult hungry for ancient power has kidnapped her father and targeted her friends. To save them, Selene must face the past she's been running from -- a past that stretches back millennia, to when the faithful called her Huntress. Moon Goddess. Artemis.
With the pantheon at her side, Selene must journey back to the seat of her immortal power: from the streets of Rome and the temples of Athens -- to the heights of Mount Olympus itself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This rich, clever, and thoughtful concluding installment of the Olympus Bound trilogy picks up six months after the events of 2016's Winter of the Gods, with Selene DiSilva, once known as the goddess Artemis, tracking her grandfather Saturn and the remnants of his Mithraist cult in order to stop them from sacrificing the kidnapped Zeus to usurp his power. Meanwhile, Selene's lover, the mortal historian Theo Schultz, believes Selene is dead and researches ancient rituals and traditions in hopes of resurrecting her. When they reunite in the Vatican, it's the prelude to a new quest that takes them to Mount Olympus itself, where the remaining gods gather for the first time in centuries. As in the previous volumes, Brodsky expertly weaves together ancient mystery cults, mythology, and science, producing a syncretic masterpiece that challenges the reader's assumptions and expectations at every turn. Her gods, with their numerous epithets and faded dignity, feel real and complicated, burdened by the weight of centuries' worth of legend and reinvention. This is a wholly satisfying conclusion to a story that adds another dimension to ancient themes and elements.
Customer Reviews
Olympus Bound
Phenomenal story and a great ending to the trilogy! The only opportunity I find with Olympus Bound, as well as the first and second book of the series, is they all started slow in the first third if each book. But once the foundation of the story is told I could not take my eyes off the pages! This is an amazing inclusion of mythology, science, and mathematics incorporated into 21st century time.