Ages 12 up.A war between the gods has started, as the deities of ancient Greece begin dying and in a desperate bid for survival turn to devour each other.

Blake presents a gory, thrilling vision of the twilight of the gods, in all their pettiness and power, while letting readers draw their own messages and conclusions. Demeter as a leathery skin stretched across the American desert is creepy in the context of climate change, she is tragic. She senses a connection with the dying characters in them, but why? And why does her boyfriend, Aidan, so readily accept what's going on? The action is riveting as tattooed and pierced incarnations of Athena and Hermes close in on Cassandra and Aidan the more context one brings to the images, the eerier they become. Cassandra Weaver is an ordinary teenager, aside from her psychic abilities, and she struggles to understand the bloody visions that plague her. In Anna Dressed in Blood, a ghost from the 1950s touched an alienated teen in the present here, the gods of ancient Greece are living out their final days in agony and war, and taking modern mortals down with them. All of them rage against their last breath.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.īlake has a real affinity for the way history shapes the present. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don't just flicker out.Įvery one of them dies in their own way. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning.īecause Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives.

These days, Cassandra doesn't involve herself in the business of gods-in fact, she doesn't even know they exist. Their search leads them to Cassandra-an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.ĭesperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.

Antigoddess series