Asterion: A Paranormal Greek Gods Romance (The Court of the Underworld, #1)

by Alessa Thorn

A club owner with a monstrous secret, an assassin with his name on a contract, a burning chemistry they can't deny.
  
ASTERION is the first book in a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark, sexy city ruled by Hades and his court of gods and monsters.
  
 If you enjoy reading smart ass heroine's and sexy alpha's, you'll love this enemies to lovers series starter! 
 
The Labyrinth is a place of deals and desire, where the wealthy and dangerous play. Asterion's word is law, and he rules the club and fighting arena with an iron fist. As a member of the Court of Styx, no one in Greece is willing to risk crossing him...well, almost no one. 
 
Ariadne is an assassin, with no job too hard or too dirty. She'll do anything to get revenge on her powerful, a-hole boss who murdered her sister and is keeping her in debt to him. When she receives the contract of her life, everything she's ever wanted is in reach. 
 
She only has to kill Asterion, the most dangerously sexy man she's ever met, and piss off Hades in the process. No problem. 
 
ASTERION is a modern re-telling of the Greek Minotaur Myth. It contains adult content, including violence, swearing, and steamy sex scenes.

• ASIN: B084P6ZM68
• Publish Date: 10 March 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 207
• Language: English

Reviews

[Caitiebelle]

I really liked this book and where the story is going - the author has caught my attention and I really feel like I want to read more of her books.

I haven't read that many takes on the greek myths in a modern setting, but this wasn't bad. I loved Asterion, he's perfect - but sadly Ariadne just falls short for me.
Don't get me wrong, she's got many good characteristics and she's absolutely perfect for Asterion. The issue I have is that she's written so epically good at what she does - you would never think she was mortal. Which is a problem, when said character IS "just" a mortal.
Yes, she's an assassin, she's a great one at that - and trained kind of like the old Spartan schools where you either were the best or you died.
But she's also like five foot nothing and 100lbs - let's try to at least be slightly realistic, there is no way this small mortal female can do any type of hand-to-hand combat with a grown ass 6,5 foot 280lb fully trained (and we are talking trained by gods type of trained) man.
It's just not going to happen. That's a "kick him in the balls and run" situation, that's been proven several times, it's just not physically possible.
I'm all for her doing damage - and yes when she's being a full assassin and getting the jump on people, coming out of the shadows etc etc, perfect and I love it and yes she would def. be able to do her thing. But not if she's the full-on focus.
And this just kept happening. She was written to be so good, she's better than gods and superheroes, and that got to me a little bit. It was just "too good" you know?

The other thing that brings the book down, is that this is a repeating problem in the series because I've read the first 4 books as I'm writing this and that is the editing. Now, the editing is not terrible. But it's not very good, and it could be miles better. There are consistently missing words, way more than there should be allowed to be. By that I mean when I am on double digits in a book, that's way too many. And that's for each book., not the whole series.
There is also the problem of sentences starting with the FMC name, again and again just a paragraph under or on the same page. This is a big no no, and it gets annoying. It's not a good sentence structure and it takes away from the content a bit, because I kept getting annoyed about it.

So as much as I loved the story about Asterion and I loved the settings of the book etc all this dragged this book down to three stars for me.