Tasked with descending to the underworld and killing the Furies, Helen must endure hellish torture whenever she goes to sleep – she wanders around the various levels of hell with no idea how to complete her task, and she’s beginning to suffer from extreme exhaustion. Although she still trains with the Delos clan, Helen and Lucas are coming to terms with the fact that they cannot be together. Lucas believes that the only way Helen will complete her quest is if he leaves her alone completely, so he tells her he doesn’t want to see her again and that he never loved her. Distraught, Helen carries on with her mission, and for the first time meets another person down in the shadowy underworld: Orion, descended from Adonis and with the power to control desire, he is the heir to the house of Rome and an outcast. He’s also kind of hot. Confused by her conflicting emotions but glad to have an ally in hell, Helen begins to realize the enormity of her task . . .
Knowing her background Helen still struggles with certain aspects of her powers and who she is still.
When she starts descending into the underworld with a mission to kill the furies so she can free her new family, she never realised how hard it would be or how alone she would feel.
She's still trying to cope with losing Lucas, knowing she still loves him even after finding out he's her cousin. The two are being pulled away but fate has other plans for the two of them. I hated seeing the two apart. I got used to seeing how cute they were together and if it wasn't the curse of bringing the families together than it was the fact they were cousins. It seemed everything was against the two even though they couldn't be more perfect together.
When she meets Orin, who I adored but didn't trust fully at the beginning, going into the underworld didn't seem so bad. She had something to look forward to once she found Orin and finally managed to control everything around her instead of going to sleep at night and being tortured and killed in the underworld.
Orin turns out to be another outcast, one that should have been killed at birth because of his abilities. He's too powerful and any earth shaker is left as a newborn to die but instead, his father took him away.
He grew up on his own alone until Helen's mother Daphne helped him. This was the reason I didn't trust him. I didn't like Daphne, her motives were against the others and she was very sly about her actions.
This book has more drama, more heartbreak and yet again, the information on the gods and their families confused me to know end. It drove me mad. I actually asked a few other readers if they had the same problem and they all agreed. It needed knocking down for us, bit by bit.
4*
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