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From Titans Release Day Blitz with Mary Ting.

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Title: From Titans Author: Mary Ting Genre: YA Mythology Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Everyone is searching for Mason. Zeus sent Hermes, and the Oracles have used their magic, with no success. A sparkle of hope arises when Eris, the goddess of Chaos, sends an invitation to her wedding engagement party. She’s holding Mason hostage, and Skylar and her friends only need permission to enter Eris’s world to rescue him. At the party, Eris gives them one condition: In exchange for Mason, they must travel to the Land of Reverse and bring back the bottle of gold water King Midas used to wash himself free of his gift. Further chaos follows when Eris not only sets up a hunt in the Labyrinth of Crete, but makes a bargain with the Titans she rescued. The Titans possess power more than anyone anticipated, and Cronus is hungry for revenge after his own children locked him up in Tartarus. No one is safe. Not even the humans. Mary Ting resides in Southern Californi...

VBT# Endangered - Dani Hoots

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  Review: Endangered - Book #1 Daughter of Hades Series - Dani Hoots - May 2016 One of my favourite themes to read about is Greek Mythology and renditions of famous stories , one of them is the tale of Hades and Persephone. In Endangered we discover that the pair had a daughter named Chrysanthemum aka Chrys and she has been living in the Underworld with her dad Hades and learning the family business. She has also been given strict instructions that she isn't allowed to wander outside of the underworld realm as nobody knows she exists as Zeus believes that Hades is sterile and can't have children but of course this hasn't proven to be the case.  In Endangered we also glimpse another side of Persephone which actually made me hate her character and like Hades a little more as she is a cougar busy dating and sleeping with as many men as she likes. Persephone only spends 3 months out of the 12 months in the Underworld and hates it here, she would rather spend her ...