Audio: Daughters of Olympus

By: Hannah Lynn

Narrated by: Zura Johnson

Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 07-09-24 by Tantor Media Inc

Historical fiction / to review

This book is about Demeter and Persephone, but mostly about Demeter. There are also some trigger warnings, because those dang gods were rapey aholes.

Demeter and her siblings are saved. Everything is good, everyone are happy. They are gods. They rule the world. But those who know mythology know that things do not always stay the same. Demeter has twins, and she becomes very protective of Persephone and centuries go by.

Demeter here is rather timid, and scared. She has not become an angry earth goddess yet. She finds love, she looses love. There are more kids, footnotes in her immortal life. She is so sad and scarred by her past.

Persephone has her own story first that her mother knows nothing about, here I honestly do not know if this is a real part of the myth or not. But yeah Hades, underworld, and Kore as she was called first finding her own self worth. Also Hades was the biggest puppy there is, omg, no one say one bad word about this man. He was adorable.

A good book that kept me entertained.

Great narration. All the different voices, moods and settings. Pure emotion

A daughter pulled between two worlds and a mother willing destroy both to protect her... Gods and men wage their petty wars, but it is the women of spring who will have the last word...

Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, the goddess of spring loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. After a devastating assault, though, she becomes a shell of herself. Her only solace is her daughter, Persephone.

A balm to her mother's pain, Persephone grows among wildflowers, never leaving the sanctuary Demeter built for them. But she aches to explore the mortal world--to gain her own experiences. Naïve but determined, she secretly builds a life of her own under her mother's watchful gaze. But as she does so, she catches the eye of Hades, and is kidnapped...

Forced into a role she never wanted, Persephone learns that power suits her. In the land of the living, though, Demeter is willing to destroy the humans she once held dear--anything to protect her family. A mother who has lost everything and a daughter with more to gain than she ever realized, their story will irrevocably shape the world.