Book Review: Blood of Zeus by Meredith Wild & Angel Payne

August 25, 2020

I’m going to do this backward and start with WHAT THE EFF WAS THAT ENDING?! Just, what the eff?! So, if you get nothing else from this review, please take away the fact that this is the first installment in a multi-book series and there is no ending. It’s the cliffiest of cliffhangers. I kind of want to cry. I may have screamed. There might have been some book-throwing. Because WHAT THE EFF HOW DO YOU END IT THERE?!

Spoiler alert: I hate cliffhangers. I’m too greedy for the HEA and this is very much a “Kinda happy but also the world as they know it is ending” and just what the eff?

Okay, now that that’s over, onto the meat of it. Blood of Zeus is a forbidden, age-gap story between a student and teacher. Both of them are more than they seem, with Kara being a demon with a future set in stone due to her family’s curse and Maximus being something more than human with no knowledge of how or why he can do the things he does.

This is the slowest of slow burns with a lot of pining and longing and sizzling chemistry between Kara and Maximus. There are almost literal sparks from the very beginning that leave you basically yelling “Will you get it on already?!” about halfway through.

Still, despite the cliffiest of cliffhangers I really enjoyed the story and the pacing. The language was a bit flowery for my taste but fit the characters (literary nerds) perfectly. They were well-developed and interesting people in a rich universe. I’ll definitely be picking up the next book because I cannot leave it there. 4/5⭐