Isle of Waiting

Overall Rating: 5/5

Half a century ago the gods left....

Since their departure, Athens is falling apart... slowly slipping into ruin. Tensions are rising between pro-Immortal, and anti-Immortal factions.

Nothing grows anymore. The land is slowly dying...

Kora has never known a life in which she has seen the Immortals praised or widely worshipped. She has always been raised to become a "proper lady"... telling her youngest sibling Micheal stories... and thwarting her ever-insistent mother's attempts to matchmake her so she can find a husband with relative status and around her age.

She goes to the market with her twin brother, William, trying to get the best of the produce and trying to fulfill her mother's somewhat unrealistic expectations...

She gardens, although the soil is so barren that nothing grows other than potatoes.

Until one night she decides to tail her twin brother, eager to find out where he's been slipping off to... only to find herself in a brewing meeting of rebels...

And in that moment, her twin brother takes a knife meant for her.

If you are a lover of mythology, of the tales that can be spun of the old gods, and the fantastic symbolism and stories that come with them, then Isle of Waiting is the perfect book for you. This is a refreshingly beautiful take on Hades & Persephone, and one that I have yet to see take such a unique view on it.

As someone who has spent hours researching the mythos, and delving into these fantastical tales from Greece, Rome, and beyond, this is a novel that I would definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys another spin on Hades & Persephone, but with a little less spice than sometimes comes from other novels.