The Trials of Apollo, Book 1
by Rick Riordan
appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
How do you punish an immortalBy making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the fourthousandyearold deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Ze...
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appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
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Consider Circe by Madeline Miller. Recommended by 7 sources.
“Lyrical, first-person retelling follows Circe from a gilded childhood among gods to long exile among mortals, trading spectacle for close psychological and sensory detail. Best as an immersive character study: it enlarges a sidelined mythic figure into a fully voiced life and lingers on desire, power, and loneliness. Limiting when you want taut plotting or variety of viewpoint — long descriptive passages and repeated thematic turns can feel indulgent, and some dramatic episodes are summarized rather than fully staged.”
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