"Back to Olympus and their games!"
Reviewed by Annetta Sweetko
Posted August 21, 2023
Fantasy
CRUEL SEDUCTION takes fans back onto Olympus and the world of the powerful 13. When last we saw this group, Hephaestus had just been killed and someone else had taken over. The last thing the rulers of Olympus wanted to be known was the little fact that killing and taking over was not exactly frowned upon.
Aphrodite has always been about the rules so she plans to marry the new Hephaestus to keep him so off-balanced that he won’t be able to do any more dirty deeds. Unfortunately, her plans and his become one up on the other that leads to hearts being broken… or will it? Can this couple and perhaps others that become involved in the bedroom games bring everything together – for love and for Olympus?
CRUEL SEDUCTION has to be one of the most confusing and fascinating reads of this series. Aphrodite marries Hephaestus while in love the Adonis, Hephaestus cares only for Pandora, but he feels obligated to Minos. So where does that leave this couple who find that they aren’t really the “bad guys” to one another but are being played as always by those who want more power?
As you may have guessed there is quite a bit of MM and FF in this book with Aphrodite and Hephaestus trying to hurt one another. There is a lot of revenge plotted as well as steamy scenes. But amidst the political nonsense that is Olympus, hearts do tend to get involved and CRUEL SEDUCTION allows four people to fall in love in a rather unexpected way. The ending will either have you laughing – after all the shenanigans – or wondering what the heck. But getting to the HEA is quite a ride.
SUMMARY
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet.
Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his new wife in her place. Her ex, Adonis, seems like he'll do the trick. It doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous in the way of fallen angels, either.
The only problem with using seduction as a weapon? Hearts are all too quick to get involved. With Hephaestus and Aphrodite trading venomous strikes that feel a whole lot like foreplay, lines become blurred and emotions entangled. But a broken heart may be the least of their worries. With unrest in Olympus reaching new heights, these bedroom games may have deadly consequences for themselves, their city, and everyone they've come to love.
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