I wanted to love this book. I went into it thinking it had potential to become my favorite, even. But then Katee Robert created this unforgivable situI wanted to love this book. I went into it thinking it had potential to become my favorite, even. But then Katee Robert created this unforgivable situation and things went down from there.
Ursa, one of the territory leaders of Carver City, wants to get her revenge on Triton, Poseidon’s second-in-command. Decades ago, she had to leave Dark Olympus to escape from him, and she’s been planning her revenge ever since.
In order to do that, she sends her submissive/sort-of-boyfriend, Alaric, to Dark Olympus to seduce Triton’s youngest daughter Zuri.
Alaric spends several weeks at Dark Olympus, meeting Zuri in secret and playing into the illusion of falling in love with her. Then, he confesses he has to go back to Carver City, because he has a contract with Hades and has been working at his Underworld club for the last 8 years in order to pay his debt.
What he forgets to tell Zuri is that he ended up at Hades� door, seeking his help, because he was trying to escape from Triton, her father. And that he’s doing all this for revenge.
Weeks later, Ursa sends a message to Zuri saying she can help her free Alaric. So Zuri, believing she’s in love with him, fleets her home and travels to Carver City. Upon meeting Ursa, she informs Zuri that her only option is to auction her virginity at the Underworld club and use the money to pay for Alaric’s debt with Hades.
Zuri has lived a very sheltered life up till now. Her father kept all his daughter under lock at home for their own good. So even if she’s 23, she’s very innocent and naive. She’s obviously scared and nervous, but she decides to go through with it because she loves Alaric.
And during her auction, Ursa surprises everyone by winning the auction. And it’s only afterwards that Zuri finds out that Ursa and Alaric are a couple, and that they have worked together to use her to free him and fuck with her father.
At this point, I was disgusted with both Ursa and Alaric but things only got worse when Ursa refused to acknowledge what she had done to Zuri was wrong. She went as far as to say Zuri had made her choice freely, and that life was hard and it was about time Zuri learned her lesson, basically.
Alaric wasn’t that much better. Sure, he felt guilty, but at the same time he thought he wouldn’t change anything that he had done. And excused his behavior in saying that he’s selfish and an asshole and everyone should know better than to trust him.
What a pair of narcissist assholes.
But the cherry on top was Zuri. Spineless, no personality or self-esteem Zuri. She cries a little and feels betrayed, sure. But still, she chooses to stay and have sex with both of them� because she can’t help herself. The way they beat her and she went and asked for seconds was baffling to me. The way she supposedly fell in love with both of them IN TWO DAYS time was just ridiculous, too.
If this wasn’t enough, their D/a dynamic was weird af to me. Alaric wanted to be Ursa’s submissive 24/7, with no autonomy to do anything whatsoever unless Ursa said so. Even Zuri was like “uh I’m not sure I want the same�! The way Ursa treated them felt more like pets or objects, than real humans. Even at the end, when she has a small moment where she opens up and says she loves them, she was still acting odd. I think she’s my least favorite character in the whole series so far. Well, the three of them, really.
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