Top Ten Tuesday: Book Recommendations For People Who
Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly
meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will be a different Top Ten list. Everyone
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join and link up.
This week is: 10 book recommendations for people who like mythology
So I am a fan of mythology and for this list
what I mean is the gods of any kind. Mostly Greek, but Greek, Roman, Norse,
some have Egyptian, etc.
*This list is no specific order*
*Click book title or series for
Goodreads link
When
Phoebe Meadows gets struck by a strange light in the stockroom of Macy’s, life
as she knows it flies out the window. As if being hit by lightning isn’t bad enough,
she’s accosted in the subway by a man with a missing hand, arrives home to find
a raven on her kitchen counter, and her neighbor, Ingrid, shows up dressed like
a gladiator hell-bent on protecting her.
Before
Ingrid can shuttle her to safety, Phoebe is kidnapped and tossed into one of
the Nine Worlds where she’s quickly forced to come to terms with what she is: A
valkyrie. The only problem is, she has no idea what that means.
After a
narrow escape, she finds an unlikely ally in Loki’s son, Fenrir. Together the
valkyrie and the wolf must battle their way back to New York City and reach the
valkyrie stronghold where Ingrid is waiting for her. But with danger and
obstacles at every turn, she might not live long enough to learn the full truth
about who and what she really is…
My name is
Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy; a school of myths, magic and warrior
whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head
with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens
to be the deadliest. But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos.
First,
mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then,
someone stole the Bowl of Tears, a magical artifact that can be used to bring
about the second Chaos War. You know, death, destruction and lots of other bad,
bad things. Freaky stuff like this goes on all the time at Mythos, but I'm
determined to find out who killed Jasmine and why; especially since I should
have been the one who died...
Every flame begins with a spark.
Blackwood
Academy was supposed to be a fresh start for Ashline Wilde. A secluded boarding
school deep in the heart of California’s redwood forests, three thousand miles
from her old life—it sounded like the new beginning she needed after an act of
unspeakable violence left a girl in her hometown dead.
But
Blackwood is far from the peaceful haven Ashline was searching for. Because
terrifying, supernatural beasts roam the forests around campus. Because the
murderer from Ashline’s hometown—her own sister—has followed her across the
country. Because a group of reincarnated gods and goddesses has been
mysteriously summoned to Blackwood...and Ashline’s one of them.
Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out
to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can’t die. . . .
Crazy as
it sounds, Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a living,
breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the
children of the gods. Nikki’s new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who
uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing
matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she’s a spy.
But most
powerful of all are the Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy
all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the eternal battle of good
god/bad god, Nikki would make a divine weapon. But if they think she’ll
surrender without a fight, the gods must be crazy. . . .
How do you defy DESTINY?
Helen
Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is
- no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's
getting harder.
Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking
parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's
haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood... and when
Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're
destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating
throughout history.
As Helen
unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than
just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces
that are both drawing her and Lucas together - and trying to tear them apart.
Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful Gorgon
maligned in myth, must reunite and embrace their fates.
Grace just
moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change
is full of fresh possibilities, but it's also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier
when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks
just like her shows up to fight the monster.
Gretchen
is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, but what can she do?
Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat
belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.
Greer has
her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts
sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and
claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from
Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters. . . .
A modern girl's comedic
odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods.
When
Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island
in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient
history. Now she must attend the uber exclusive academy, where admission
depends on pedigree, namely, ancestry from Zeus, Hera, and other Greek gods.
That's
right, they're real, not myth, and their teen descendants are like the
classical heroes: supersmart and super beautiful with a few superpowers. And
now they're on her track team! Armed only with her Nikes and the will to win,
Phoebe races to find her place among the gods.
One day
Persephone is an ordinary high school senior working at her mom’s flower shop
in Athens, Georgia. The next she’s fighting off Boreas, the brutal god of
Winter, and learning that she’s a bonafide goddess—a rare daughter of the
now-dead Zeus. Her goddess mom whisks her off to the Underworld to hide until
Spring.
There she
finds herself under the protection of handsome Hades, the god of the dead, and
she’s automatically married to him. It’s the only way he can keep her safe.
Older, wiser, and far more powerful than she, Hades isn’t interested in
becoming her lover, at least not anytime soon. But every time he rescues her
from another of Zeus’s schemes, they fall in love a little more. Will Hades
ever admit his feelings for her?
Can she
escape the grasp of her powerful dad’s minions? The Underworld is a very cool
place, but is it worth giving up her life in the realm of the living? Her
goddess powers are developing some serious, kick-butt potential. She’s going to
fight back.
Percy
Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the
least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount
Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology
textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's
master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day.
As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and onto the world. She taught me to love again.
But I was not born to love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace--the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse?
Julian of Macedon
2 comments
YES! I love mythology!
ReplyDeleteThere's two series I really enjoyed that are based on myths, if you're interested:
The Paper Gods by Amanda Sun
Creatura by Nely Cab
Yes! I love Mythology! I like these choices a lot and have added a fair few of them to my TBR now. If you like Myths & Legends, definitely check out 'The Gospel Of Loki' by Joanne M. Harris, 'The Star-Touched Queen' by Roshani Chokshi, 'The Bear & The Nightingale' by Katherine Arden and 'Under Fishbone Clouds' by Sam Meekings.
ReplyDeleteGreat choices, feel free to check out my TTT list on unreliable narrators :)