Agent: Adriann Ranta, Wolf Literary Services. 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. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health. The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of a beautiful and dark new series by the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark. Demeter as a leathery skin stretched across the American desert is creepy in the context of climate change, she is tragic. 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. 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. Blake has a real affinity for the way history shapes the present.
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