"I can feel the golden thread of my new destiny, the one I’d chosen for myself, slipping through my fingers."

    Urgggh! Can't believe that's happening to me again! That I launch into a promising story full of untapped intrigues and deep dark secrets then bang! it is only made into three books so as to stall the course of events especially made for angsting me. Damn it. Urgggh! once again.
    As you can forbode, I usually go for an action-packed thrill and a raised-level blood pulse, but what I get is a hoity-toity rambling and an unintermitted retelling of the freaking evident!!!

With or without you

     I would expect it to be truthful to the passages of a young adult and while Haden fits the elementary qualities what a ya hottie ought to possess, on Daphne's part I just feel ignorance. Is she so much engaged in her trust issues that she shuts her eyes to the freaking-eight-abs-underrealmly-gorgeousness rather than make a bolt for him? Outrageous! And the question is on what grounds? The bullshit train must have taken offfff. And from now on, it is unstoppable.
     The acutely-calculated twist and turn comprises the moment when like a stroke of lightning she opens her "inner" eye and perceives she's not the middle of the universe. How cliché is that? Good job hon, keep going!
      It is likely the author concocts a master plan how they will end up together at the end of the series but the crumbs of showing their affection is not the least satisfiable. I feel like a leering puppet gazing at a feasible-ready-to-fall crumb of meat from the dinner table, but instead the head of the family gives me a kick.
      Largely, Daphne doesn't own any attractive feature to make her a positive strong heroine. She'd hardly stand her ground in the mortal dimension if we stripped her off the Greek mythology lacquer.

      "I’d thought I could choose my own path. Weave my own destiny. But the thread I’d been clinging to hasn’t just slipped through my fingers, it has unraveled and snapped."

      I don't need to emphasize the fact that there is absolutely no reason to recite what is happening from three different perspectives. The pastry-cooks also know that 3 layers of marzipan makes the cake concupisible but inedible at the same time. I would have passed over it in silence in case I had gotten a steamy, slouchy, snogging backup story. Obviously, I had not. The only vantage of it is I am a Greek myth addict thus I did not sweep it aside after a couple of chapters that I should have apparently done.

P.S. I hoped for some reasoms that Haden and Garrick might have some brotherhood-developement during the hardship of their quest. Only a treacherous rat crosses my way of expectations and spats me in the face. As in, I don't fancy you, Garrick.

Favourite character: Haden

Least favorite character: everyone else

The great question of life

I feel like earning a medallion for having been put through The Eternity Key and still there is one more to go. The Immortal. To read or not to read? As I need to ready my mind for a reading experience beset with imperative hardships and a lot of angst...yeesh...nope it's totally not gonna happen!

Rating

3 out of 5 and a bunch of sad emojis :((((

Before jumping empyrean heights

Have you ever encountered the prickling feeling when you hurtle into a pile of books hot-headed, starved for a good-old dark-haired hottie and a ridiculously perfect damsel in distress with an alabaster complexion and what you got after hundreds of pages of roaming and exploring is the peek of....disappointment.

I think I've done my best to describe the notion of booklovers' crises.

However, the day has come when I got out of the darkest pit of Tartarus where books like .... belong. Sorry guys. I am not economical with the truth.

So let's sing hallelujah and dance around a bonfire because this story is on its justifiable way towards Elysium. ;)

“How am I supposed to get her to fall in love with me when I don’t know the first thing about … it? Love, I mean.”

Given a cold-hearted warrior from the under realm benighted of/by the meaning of love with a pretty rough family background and a much-alike angel-voiced x-factor ready to burst from emotions bound to meet each other under quite extraordinary circumstances. What I mean by extraordinary is a right hook of Daphne which pretty much founded the nature of their bumpy relationship from the very beginning. But first impression is not everything, and they are right. Occasionally.

I love peeking into both of their points of view because this mythical is so wide one aspect would not be able make it complete whastsoever. Considering Hayden's part of the story, he brings in the rough masculine line full of suppressed emotions and underlying wrath, ready to burn all his adversaries, whereas Daphne embraces every girlish fibers from her blondness to her blue eyes without the "Do not touch it, it is fragile" sign. All in all, she is not going to the display window for now.

“She definitely doesn’t like me. She accused me of stalking her!”
“But you are stalking her, aren’t you?”
“Well, yes, but she’s not supposed to know that.”

Hayden's cluelessness about the innovations of the twenty first century is adorable. I could have bear more funny comments about it but I condone him due to his death-serious-having-doledrums-underworld-prince semblance. All the same, he could not leave his predilection to cars in the deepest chamber of the Pits. Typical. But who the devil could say no to a Tesla X anyway?

"I have been trained in the art of combat, not in singing, dancing, and making small talk with teenage girls."

I quite appreciate the evolution of their friendship into something more, nonetheless I anticipated much more romance which has not stepped forward yet. My fingers. Are. Crossed.

What is your inner voice?

I accepted the challenge of picturing their inner voice to me, but I need a whole lot of imagination falls to my part to hear all of the chansons with my invisible third ear. Do not get it wrong. I love my imagination but there are times when I fancy the idea of a soundtrack list. How about that?

Rating

A decent 4 out of 5.

With a good deal of romance in it it would have bee hog heaven.

How we found each other

It never gets out of fashion to read some gods-walking-among-us-covertly bed-time stories. Just like watching Disney movies.

“Take care of her, Jax. She’s one of us now.”

Apart from the fact that Delia is imprisoned for life on Trespass island, she takes better than expected. At least, better than I would go with it. No internet? They'd better call themselves cavemen again. And good gracious no Instagram? Holy cow! Earth must have spin off its axis.
What the hell is this freak-me-out show Trespass-style?

However, I wouldn't mind if I was taken to an amazing underwater journey like this. I love when Jax and Delia are traveling to uncharted waters of which every minute feels like magic. Have I mentioned I love water? It convinced me to take scuba-diving lessons. Thumbs up!

Personally, I think the story could have been unfold in a trilogy for the characters being multiplayer to explore, let alone enjoyable story-telling. But It remains hidden in the world of imagination left to the audience to go on guessing what will happen to them. And I can't get tired of re-make of Greek mythology ever! I start to believe people of Ancient times got the most inspiration and we, the masses of the 21th century, got the meek part of worshipping. Typical.

How I feel now

I'm doing impressed.

Rating

3 out of 5

Song

Naughty Boy - Running