This book was lovely. I love the world that Katee has created and the different twists on Greek myths.

I've read most but not quite all of the previous books in the series. I really appreciate the MuseWatch headlines as a recap for everything that happened previously. Such a clever and fun way to handle that! Despite it having been awhile since I last read this series, I was immediately sucked in and the characters and dynamics all came back quickly.

I really enjoyed the development of the relationship between Poseidon and Icarus. The way they balanced each other in general and of course in the bedroom was fantastic.

Thanks to NetGalley, Katee Robert, and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the ARC!

Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks for the arc. I was thrilled to get a Dark Olympus arc because I love this series.

This picks up right where Dark Restraint ended, with Icarus in Poseidon's custody. I really enjoyed getting to know who Poseidon was, and also the info we got about his short-lived relationship with Demeter. I live for Demeter crumbs and am still holding out hope that she's a redacted in the final book. Also loved seeing more of Callisto/Hera because what a bad ass. This book only made me even more excited for Tender Cruelty.

Back to Sweet Obsession, this was a more plot heavy entry, which makes sense given how the last book ended. But there were still lots of fun times had between Poseidon and Icarus. As always this was very insta love, the entire book takes place over like a week max. Katee Robert is the only person who makes that work for me. It's a real skill, in this one I really felt the relationship development and it didn't feel like insta love even with the compressed time frame. I really recommend this one, and the series. We're in the home stretch now and I'm so excited.

AND WE FINALLY HAVE POSEIDON’S STORY!!!!

I mean, I’m still desperately waiting for Zeus’s lol BUT I feel like Poseidon has been the elusive character for the entire series and we FINALLY get to not only meet him but get inside his head??? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU!

This book was fantastic. I truly enjoyed watching Poseidon and Icarus grow closer out of their protective natures. I loved Poseidon’s caring and nurturing side—but also his need to be taken care of…something he likely has never admitted to anyone before Icarus came into the picture.

I also loved the overarching plot of the entire series coming to a head in this book. We finally get to find out what brings the walls around Olympus down, what it means for the Thirteen, and what they’re going to do about it.

I’m also loving all the cameos of the couples we’ve gotten to know throughout the series. I love seeing them after their stories have concluded, and I cannot wait to see how they all come together (or wage war lol) in the next book.

Don’t miss out on this story:
- MM
- Sub/Dom
- Greek mythology reimagining
- Captor x Captive
- Opposites attract

THANK YOU KATEE ROBERT FOR GIVING US MM

YOU ARE ICONIC FOR YOUR SPICE AND WE DONT DESERVE YOU

Okay this was SO good! I’m so excited to reach the end of this series but I don’t want it to be over and lemme tell you we are getting to the end and I’m so excited

Rating: 4 / 5 ⭐
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️

Once again, I was completely pulled into the world of Dark Olympus.

Stay with me. Love me.

I instantly liked Poseidon;it’s not that I didn’t like him before but after learning more about him I was in He’s really too good for The Thirteen. Icarus is apologetically who he is and I appreciate that about him. I adored his character arc and think it was incredibly well written.

The chemistry between the two could have transitioned a little faster to seem less awkward. This might be one of my favorite relationships out of the series and we’ve got options. The captor/captive dynamic also played out in an interesting way.

As always, I enjoyed world-building and the cast of characters. You’ll see some familiar faces but I don’t wanna go any more in depth and risk spoilers. Honestly, if you like the series you’ll be happy with the newest book.

Thank you Katee Robert, NetGalley and SourceBooks Casablanca for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I think this is my favorite of the series and it will be hard to top. While the ongoing saga of Olympus unfolds we are given a sexy, steamy, endearing romance for the ages. I cannot praise this story enough. It also left me very excited for Zeus.

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📚 Sweet Obsession
Dark Olympus Series book 8
✍🏼 Katee Robert
📖 Dark Romance
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Happy Pub Day!! The latest installment of the Dark Olympus Series is now Live!..
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Nothing on Olympus is quite well, chaos is taking the city, new alliances, enemies at the door, everything seems impossible right now..
Icarus is now captive and imprisoned in a cell, Poseidon needs to know some crucial information and is determined to get it from Icarus.. what he doesn’t know is that.. the heart wants what it wants..
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Bold, compelling, scorching 🥵, great world building, unique characters and the plot is getting better and better in each book..
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🎆 Read if you like :
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⭐️ Greek mythology
⭐️ hot modern retelling
⭐️ political intrigue
⭐️ power dynamics
⭐️ insta lust
⭐️ M/M romance
⭐️ opposite attracts
⭐️ spicy romance
⭐️ dark romance
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Special thanks to the Author @katee_robert, Publisher @sourcebookscasa and @netgalley for this ARC. The opinions are on my own.
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I was so looking forward to this book and I did not disappoint. It was enjoyable and funny and spicy and stressful and cute and just all the things. I don’t understand how each book gives me a new person that I say is my favorite.

Sweet Obsession is fantastic, but can’t be read as a standalone. The romance between Icarus and Poseidon is one of the best of the Dark Olympus series. Sweet Obsession also does two things that needed to happen at this point in the series. One it brings us firmly back into Olympus’s politics in the upper city. Two, by giving us more Hera and Zeus, and finally letting us meet Circe, it sets the hook for the final two books in the series.

At the end of Dark Restraint, Ariadne and The Minotaur are able to escape Olympus when the barrier falls because Icarus has taken Poseidon captive on the dock. That situation is quickly reversed with Poseidon becoming Icarus’s jailer. One of Poseidon’s men takes initiative and tortures Icarus to get more information about Circe, which Poseidon stops. Now Poseidon is a caretaker as well as a jailer, and Icarus decides it is to his advantage to seduce him. There is a danger when a relationship goes from manipulative seduction to romantic love that there will be a magical D. After all, Icarus is an accomplished seducer, why would he be so foolish as to fall in love with his target?

Katee Robert is too accomplished a writer to fall into that trap, so what we get is two characters taken by surprise. We get a buckling knee that changes everything. Poseidon flips the script on the power dynamics of their burgeoning relationship. Icarus, who knows better, is cracked open and real feelings are formed. I bought the insta love because Katee Robert gives us a mental emotional and physical foundation for it. Icarus and Poseidon are both tired of the games that have dominated their lives and the pressures created by Circe’s blockade make for an emotional crucible. I’ve enjoyed the Dark Olympus series, but I think this might be my favorite Katee Robert book since Your Dad Will Do.

I was always going to read the whole series, but I’m more interested now in how the next two books are going to resolve the overarching plot as well as get these relationships to a happily ever after. The politics are politicking hard in Sweet Obsession. As members of the Thirteen are scrambling to save the city and/or their own people, the structural problems in the system that gives the Thirteen their power are highlighted.

I received this as an advance reader copy from Sourcebooks and NetGalley. My opinions are my own, freely and honestly given.

What to say, what to say… this was… fine.
It’s a character driven book with focus on spice. There’s some story but I felt myself not caring about the story at all. It doesn’t seem to be properly thought out and it definitely wasn’t the main focus here. But that doesn’t matter. It was an easy to read little enemies (that never really act like enemies) to lovers and all in all fun.
I did enjoy it, it’s a nice book to read in between books with complicated worldbuilding, as this had basically none.
The whole „Greek mythology“ thing is kind of random, because at the end of the day the characters and places only have names that come from Greek mythology, however they’re not gods and it not set in what Olympus is supposed to be. It’s just a city named Olympus and characters like Zeus, Poseidon etc are simply job titles in this world.

I have to admit however that this is the 8th book in a series of standalones and I have not read any of the others, so maybe I was a little more confused about the world it’s set in that I would’ve been if I’d had read the others. But it also didn’t matter much, as I mentioned it wasn’t much world building here and so I could pick up on the setting rather easily.

All in all, I’d recommend if you like a little easy-to-read, spicy little gay romance.

I love the books in this series even when they get absolutely goofy and this volume is no different.

The author's note says that this is Robert's first gay love story and I think they did a great job with these characters. This one isn't a kink that I enjoy and I always feel like the romances in these stories are very quick to develop. But once you suspend your disbelief a little, these are fun and political stories that I enjoy every time.

For a quick, spicy, fun time read you can do no wrong with picking up a Katee Robert and Sweet Obsession is a fantastic addition to their backlog.

I'm in love with this whole series! I have loved Greek Mythology since reading it in my 8th grade English class. Katee Robert takes my love of mythology and triples my soft spot for it. Through her updated story lines, she takes the characters & stories we know & love and creates it in a world that resembles our own. I was engaged from the very start of Poseidon & Icarus's journey. Such an intriguing story!

Icarus is part of Circe's team & they take down the wall that has protected Olympus for centuries. Poseidon has captured him & needs to figure out how to retrieve the enemy's plans for future attacks. The attraction between these two characters is strong. As you read, you keep hoping there is a way for Icarus & Poseidon to figure out their paths. You will definitely root for these two enemies to become lovers! The struggle between doing what's right for everyone & doing what's right for you is constantly popping up in Sweet Obsession. It's a constant struggle that we humans deal with & watching it play out between these two characters makes them even more humanistic & not just gods.

Hot damn. This was a lot hotter than I thought it was going to be. Icarus and Poseidon’s relationship was next level. Even though Icarus was prisoner I feel like Poseidon didn’t know what he was signing up for when he saved/held Icarus

Firstly thank you so much NetGalley for the ARC for this book! I can’t believe I got a chance to read this before it came out!!

This is the 8th book in the Dark Olympus series so it is quite hard to give a review now without giving any spoilers.

The book kicks off where the last book finished and the events that unfolded there this time from Icarus and Poseidon’s POV.

I love that the overall series plot is really kicking it up a gear now, it feels l like we are getting to the crux of the storyline and finally getting our hands on some of the secrets that have been kept from us so far! The barrier has fallen so what does that mean now for Olympus? Who else will come for them and what will Circe do? Can the thirteen protect the city and themselves?

Poseidon is just the sweetest character, it’s clear that looks can be deceiving and although he comes across as this scary grumpy man he’s actually got a heart of gold. I do wish we had gotten a little bit more of him in the past books but I guess that’s intentional to make it a surprise when he’s like he is really.

I love Icarus’s development throughout this book with the help of Poseidon. So far we have only seen him in the past few books in snippets so it was nice to get watch his growth. He moves from this emotionally devoid character to this caring thoughtful person who sacrifices a lot for his people. They are exactly who each other needed!!

I enjoyed the change of scenery in this book from the upper city to the boat yard. I like the growing tension between Hera and Zeus and getting to know Athena more in the brief chapters she was there. I think she would be an interesting character if she had her own story.

As with all the other books it’s an easy quick read with a great storyline and interesting characters. I can’t wait for the final two instalments and the conclusion to Dark Olympus series!

Thank you to Sourcebooks Casablanca for the eARC and Dreamscape Media for the ALC.

Did Not Finish.

I’ve liked most of the Dark Olympus series (I’ve missed a few, just by lack of time, not interest) so a M/M pairing with Poseidon and Icarus was intriguing. But then some BDSM came into play (wasn’t expecting that, nor wanting that) and I just wasn’t into it. Sorry, but while I appreciate the switch (the brat was the dom!) but it just didn’t work for me. The narrators were top tier, though, and I almost continued to listen despite my disinterest in the content.

I absolutely adore this book and am blown away by how Robert continues to build this world of gods. Icarus is a mess and a menace and I could not love him more. Happy book birthday, boys!

Ohh I love this!
I’ll admit the last 2 books in the series weren’t my favorites, but this one is so great. It has it all: the amazing subplot, the romance between charismatic characters, and even a little plot twist.
Definitely one of the best in the series in my opinion.

I've been such a fan of Robert's and the Dark Olympus series since Neon Gods blew my mind years ago. Since then, the series has been some high highs and lately, some stories I wasn't as interested in. I think as the world-building has gotten more intricate, some of the background plot has taken precedence over the main romances which are what I came for. I really think this installment is a return to form for a series I love. It's wild to me that there are 8 books so far and we are nearing the end! I think this book had a really good balance of the overarching world-building and the main romance. Icarus and Poseiden have all the reasons in the world to not be together (one being that Poseidon is you know...keeping Icarus prisoner) yet keep being drawn to each other. I loved how Poseidon is a member of the thirteen and has all this power yet in the bedroom it is Icarus who takes charge. Robert does a great job with the power imbalance and the ending of this is just so lovely while also giving us a tease for what is to come.

This was the first book in the series where I was just as anxious about the romance as I was about the background plot elements. The stuff with Circe is coming to a head and I'm so curious to see what happens. I remain completely feral for Hera and Zeus's story because...oof. And what is Hermes up to????

Thank you so much to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

There is something special about the combination of Greek mythology and Katee Robert. Sweet Obsession is beautifully dark, seductive and exhilarating. Poseidon and Icarus's story also has an angsty longing throughout the book that I loved so much.

🌈 MM romance
🌈 fantasy
🌈 enemies to lovers
🌈forced proximity
🌈 forbidden romance
🌈 BDSM

The upper city of Olympus is under thread by Circe and her fleet of military ships after the protective barrier is down. Icarus is caught by Poseidon and his crew while his sister runs away. The Thirteen has to be united if the citizens are to be saved. Icarus is the enemy. The captive. Poseidon knows he cannot trust him but there is something about him that's so calming and arousing. Icarus started using his seduction techniques to manipulate Poseidon into protecting him but soon he realises that Poseidon is good through and through. But are they doomed with the long history of two enemies?


I am always fascinated to read how Katee Robert delivers Greek mythology in a twisted way so smartly. Poseidon is one of the most powerful legacy chair in the Thirteen but he doesn't play games like the others. He is noble and honest and straightforward. He genuinely cares for his people. He doesn't rule by fear and corruption. He wants what's best for the city and is ready to do everything for that. That's why he surprised Icarus. He comes from an evil powerful family and his father was a monster who was recently killer. He has deep seated self loathing and vulnerability those he hides behind his fake charm and seduction. He has used his sex appeal to gather favors and blackmail material those would help him survive but Poseidon is so real. And he is disbalanced here specially when Poseidon shows the submissive side. The kink comes in and it was scorching hot. Even more because it's forbidden and they are in middle of a literal battle but every time they came together, nothing else mattered. The plot is fast paced with endless twists and mind games and political moves going on. No one can trust no one here. Poseidon made Icarus feel like someone can see him beyond his mask of flirt and seduction. And Icarus created a place to let all his responsibilities go and feel relaxed and safe for a while. The battle is not over yet but Poseidon and Icarus have their happily ever after while we readers are left wanting more from this explosive world.

I reviewed an early copy voluntarily

Sweet Obsession🔱

Sweet Obsession is the eighth book in the Dark Olympus series and this time focuses on Icarus and Poseidon❣️

War is upon Olympus…it’s only a matter of time before the barrier comes down…and when it does Ariadne and the Minotaur escape, leaving Icarus as the lone captive in an unlikely captor’s grip. Poseidon was thrust into his position decades ago and has led his people honourably. He is a gentle giant, with a heart of gold💛 Suffice to say he never expected Icarus to be the one person who would bring him to his knees.

I loved the ending, it brought tears to my eyes😢 Can’t wait to see what happens next and to find out what exactly happens with Circe. I received an advanced copy via Netgalley and willingly leave my honest review🙌