4.5 rounded to 5 stars.

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for giving me an ARC.

I really enjoyed this re-telling of the Heracles myth. First of all thank you to the author for using Heracles and not the Romanised Hercules - it may seem like a small detail but it drives me mad!

Sometimes it's difficult for an author to make a story feel like their own when it's re-telling a well-known story, but this was really well done! The characters, whilst familiar, all felt unique from their classical personalities, and I'm delighted Hera got to call Zeus a dipshit (many times!).

The prose was great and the dialogue was one of the strongest features of the book. It cemented the dynamic between families perfectly and was very realistic (or as realistic as dialogue between gods can be).

Although very different from Someone You Can Build A Nest In, I really enjoyed both books, and I'm very excited to see what the author writes in the future!