Fathoms Above

Star-Crossed, Book 2

By: Laura Holt

Narrated by: Anna Chadderdon

Cather Stevens is the many time’s great granddaughter of Thisbe, the original Juliet, whose determination to be with her true love Pyramus caused a star crossed curse to be cast over all the women in her family.

This curse, created by Zeus, King of the gods, has lasted for centuries, and has doomed more men than Cather can count, including her own father, to early graves. Only Cather possesses the ability to break it, and with the help of Hermes, the Book Keeper and Messenger of the gods, that is what she intends to do. The gods don’t make anything easy, though, especially when a mortal dares to challenge the divine. Soon, Cather finds herself pitted in a race against time against Athena, the goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy, who will stop at nothing to prevent Cather and Hermes from reaching their destination: Salem, Massachusetts, where Peter Ganis, the last living descendant of Pyramus’s bloodline, lives.

Because of his ancestor’s tie to Thisbe, a marriage to Peter will help Cather end her family’s curse once and for all. But can she love a mortal boy, or will the shattered pieces of her soul forever belong to Hermes?

©2017 Laura Holt (P)2023 Laura Holt

Twilight meets Greek gods

I tried to like this series as the concept seems interesting, but struggled to keep going. This series is for younger readers. Older audiences will tire quickly of the teen angst, gods doing dumb stuff for dumb reasons, and lots of he loves me, he loves me not back and forth. However, sensitive young readers should not read this series as there are some graphic gruesome parts.

The narration of the second book is MUCH better than the first.