Cruel Seduction

Dark Olympus, Book 5

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Alex Moorcock, Zara Hampton-Brown

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 them both, their city, and everyone they've come to love.

©2023 Katee Robert (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Starts out good, but kinda falls flat....

I appreciate what she is doing here, but the immediate plot was under developed for me. However, the larger plot is heating up which got the mind ticking on which myth the author is leading us toward. It is starting to look alot like Hera's rebellion. If so, the author's take on Zeus, Hera, and chains will likely be quite spicy.

Lastly, I got totally caught up on the spice and Iliad twists in Wicked Beauty that I totally missed the Hephestos easter eggs!

Solid but needed more character development for me

In the series before this one, there’s a lot more build up to why the characters actually liked, lusted & loved one another - but this one left me wanting a little bit across all 4 relationships. Still love the general storyline in Olympus but could have had more build up for me.

What a GREAT story….

I absolutely loved this book!!! 📕 How it’s not just a monogamy kinda relationship, it’s polyamorous. How they all 4 even each other out. It’s different & absolutely entertaining. I can’t wait to read more.,, 🤗

Great! I really enjoyed it.

I read the reviews before I started listening to this book- I’ve loved all of the prior ones so I knew I was going to listen to it regardless. I don’t see what all the bad reviews are about. I really enjoyed it! This book and the one about Helen are the only books I’ve read about polyamory but I didn’t have any problems with it.

I do wish there were epilogue’s though! I feel like every book ends so abruptly, lol. But that’s just my personal opinion.

I loved the narrators!

Getting deeper

I love the Dark Olympus series. I preordered this book to make sure I had it as soon as I could, it did not disappoint. The plot of the story is the same as all of the other books, but this one is deeper. Katee Robert is really starting to get into the depth and details of what actually happening to Olympus. This book was just as sexy and spicy as the others, but I like the story line of this installment.