Sara Douglass
Paperback | Pages: 637 pages Rating: 3.89 | 3474 Users | 148 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Hades' Daughter (The Troy Game, #1) |
| ISBN: | 0765344424 (ISBN13: 9780765344427) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Troy Game #1 |
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Created by gods. Destroyed by revenge. Reborn in the darkest magic of all. THE TROY GAME. The ancient Aegean sorcery lives on.Theseus bested the Minotaur with the aid of Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth. So when Theseus betrays her, Ariadne turns her wrath upon him and all his world, the catastrophe strikes the Mediterranean. Thera explodes, Atlantis sinks below the waves, poisons fill the air, tidal waves inundate nations, entire peoples are destroyed.
Amid the chaos, the great city of Troy falls, undone as much by Ariadne's revenge as by Greek cunning. Among the scattered Trojans wanders one man, Brutus, who carries with him the Troy Game, the greatest secret the western world has ever known. And Ariadne wants it – badly. As do her wicked daughter-heir successors.
The Greek goddess, Artemis appears to Brutus and offers him a splendid and powerful future if only he can resurrect the Troy Game. Hungry for power and a home for his people, Brutus accepts her challenge. And so the Troy Game begins, on the shores of the Thames in ancient Iron Age Britain.
But the malevolent Minotaur, Asterion, has escaped death and seeks to destroy the Game completely. And Cornelia, Brutus’ strange, unknowable wife, trails death in her wake.
Everywhere lurks Ariadne’s legacy of hatred, carrying western Europe into a maelstrom of darkness
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| Title | : | Hades' Daughter (The Troy Game #1) |
| Author | : | Sara Douglass |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 637 pages |
| Published | : | September 15th 2003 by Tor Books (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 3474 Users | 148 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books Hades' Daughter (The Troy Game #1)
I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. I've had it since high school, tried starting it several times and never made it through. Read it this time in a few hours. Couldn't put it down. Douglass' novels were always about 'the long game' in the end, and I'm very curious to see how the entirety of this series plays it. I have the rest of the books so I can read through them one after another.Much of this book was extremely brutal; there is rape, torture, murder and despicable deeds aplentyWhile this starter to the series is packed full of passion and promise, I feel like it was the best book in the series. Without spoilers, by the time I was reading the fourth book, I was so disgusted with the main character that I found her unlikable. When terrible things would happen to her, I didn't care anymore. So I quit reading the book at that point.As a setup for a series, it does it's job in spades. The four rating will be the highest this series will get from me.
I tried to like this book, but ultimately, I just didn't think it was very good. It had a lot of the elements that I look for in an entertaining "get lost in the saga" kind of read. But it fell short of my expectations.I will admit to only reading the first about 200 pages, the "London" pages at the beginning of each section, and the last 100 or so pages. But my friend Meegan, who read the book in its entirety, assures me that I didn't miss anything. Honestly, I would not have even read as much
This was the second attempt at this book - the first being when I was a teenager and I just couldn't get through it. This time was totally different. A very complex and compelling story taking us back to the days of the ancient Greek gods. With the fall of the ancient Labyrinth, evil is unleashed on the Greek world and civilization quickly crumbles. Far away on the coast of what will one day be England, one small outpost thrives with the Mistress of the Labyrinth as it's leader. Calling out to
When I read this as a teenager, I liked it, but clearly didn't understand it. Rereading it as an adult, I can appreciate it a lot more fully. If no one has told you yet, there should be a couple trigger warnings here and there, particularly for the sexual assaults you'll occasionally see. Also, it's pretty heteronormative, with an emphasis on heterosexual fertility and gods, etc. The writing isn't perfect, and it's a bit problematic (the concept that anyone could so quickly fall in love with
Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge, the Second Best Challenge, and the High Fantasy Challenge.This was my first acquaintance with the work of Sara Douglass. She has a lot of other published books (which is more than I can say) and so obviously a lot of people like her work.But I'm sorry; I just couldn't do it.I made it about halfway through this book before I gave up in disgust.It's not for bad writing; although I must admit, I found the frequent cackling and hand-rubbing soliloquys
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