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Psyche and Eros
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2023-05-25
- Rating
- ★ 3.4 · 48 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Princess Psyche of Mycenae is prophesied to defeat a monster feared by the gods. Rebelling against her society's traditions, she trains in blade and bow to fulfill her destiny. The jealous goddess Aphrodite sends Eros, the God of Desire, to deliver a fatal love-curse upon her, but Eros is accidentally pricked by his own arrow, dooming him to fall in love with Psyche the moment their eyes meet—and to lose her at that same moment. Thrown together by fate, headstrong Psyche and world-weary Eros face escalating challenges as the Trojan War erupts and the heavens conspire to keep them apart, striving to reunite before it is too late.
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- Prophecy: “a prophecy claims that Psyche - Princess of Mycenae - will defeat a monster feared even by the gods themselves” source
- Greek Mythology: “feminist retelling of one of the greatest love stories in Greek mythology” source
- Curse: “the jealous Aphrodite sends the God of Desire, Eros, to deliver a fatal love-curse” source
- Strong Heroine: “Rebelling against society's traditions, she spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to fulfil her destiny” source
- Chosen One: “Rebelling against society's traditions, she spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to fulfil her destiny” source
- Forbidden Love: “as the Trojan War begins and the whole of the heavens try to keep them apart” source
- Epic Saga: “the Trojan War begins and the whole of the heavens try to keep them apart” source
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