This trilogy is bullshit part 1
"To him, Daphne is not merely a woman reborn from myth. She is the impossible answer: dryad, survivor, living sunlight, and the one power that could give darkness an heir."
The plot is Daphne has a special womb and due to that vampire King edgelord is trying to use her to get an heir immune to the sun
Of course it's ai generated image on the cover
Ps: I'm only reading the SAMPLE. Zero chance I'll spend money to read the whole book
If the ridiculous ammount of pages doesn't give you an idea, here's a comparison:
You can read the entire 7 books Chronicles of Narnia saga in less pages
Lots of chapters
"The second was that men assumed sacred things did not mind being touched.
They came in summer with bronze knives and clean white robes, laughing softly as if laughter became holy when carried beneath the branches of a laurel."
I can't believe I got to use this meme a THIRD time @sarafangirlart
"—not to be adored, not to be immortalized, not to become a symbol sung by men who never heard the terror in the song."
It quickly became clear this Daphne would be a terrible protagonist
"The name moved through the clearing. Not as Apollo had spoken it in pursuit. Not as priests had sung it in ownership. The dryads spoke it like a door being found beneath vines."
That's not the profound writing you think it is
I don't think this book had an editor or a beta reader. Because somehow Daphne knows that the warrior nymph is named Thaleia before the woman introduced herself
"They knew who she meant. Of course they knew. Every tree knew. Every nymph knew. Every girl who had ever fled a god knew."
It's one of those books that treat every female character as a victim of sexism and misoginy
Pan is here. For some reason
"The answer: not a woman, not a survivor, not Daphne, but an answer, a key, a womb with a myth wrapped around it before she had even learned how long her new hands could hold themselves steady."
Yeah, yeah, yeah
"Alone in the heart of Nocthrys, Luun wore only the shape Hecate had given him and Hades had permitted him to keep."
He's a emo edgelord
"She was not beautiful in the soft manner of court poets or priestly lies. Luun had owned, courted, fed upon, spared, and destroyed beauties enough to make the word almost dull."
So he's a serial killer but I'm supposed to see him as a good love interest?
"He had not ruled the Blood Court for a thousand years by mistaking appetite for vision, at least not where anyone could see him do it.
Not merely a womb.
A threshold. A bride of impossible consequence."
Hope this vampire King dies 😑
"I know every human Apollo has polished brightly enough to mistake himself for a star."
"Not fear. Not yet. Apollo had chased Daphne once and failed so spectacularly that poets had been needed to make his failure sound like romance."
If you told the "writer" of this book about the myth of Hecuba or Asclepius, this person would burst into flames
"Kingship is inheritance. Without that, a kingdom is only a long interruption before dust."
What makes this idiot better than Apollo?
"Phaeron had Daphne's problem in reverse. He had been made into a symbol before he had ever been allowed to be a child."
Oh great!! 🙄
Luun is the type of father that treats his sons as investiments and then get's annoyed when the sons don't achieve his impossible demands
"Luun could teach her something else.
Patience. Night. Revenge. A throne from which she would never again need to run.
He imagined her beside him in Nocthrys, not trembling and newly born, but crowned in black laurel, her sunlight veiled but not extinguished."
It get's worse, unfortunally
"He imagined Apollo watching from the heavens while the woman he had failed to possess chose the king his light could not kill. He imagined a child between them, dark-eyed and sun-crowned, laughing beneath noon while temples broke open and vampires stepped from centuries of shadow."
Don't know how the reader is supposed to care about this guy
"Every king required a private place of failure. Men who lacked one became stupid. Gods who lacked one became Apollo."
Dude, shut up, you're not that much better
He has a mausoleum for the experiment sons he had that failed to survive the sunlight
"I have found the mother of the heir who will avenge you."
This piece of shit has yet to have a first interaction with Daphne, but he already talks as if she belongs to him 🤬
And to finish this part with more trash, the author put the dumb Maiden-Mother-Crone template on Hecate...
