Lore Olympus
by Rachel Smythe
Witness what the gods do…after dark. The friendships and the lies, the gossip and the wild parties, and of course, forbidden love. Because it turns out, the gods aren’t so different from us after all, especially when it comes to their problems. Stylish and immersive, this is one of mythology’s greatest stories -- The Taking of Persephone -- as it’s never been told before.
Reviews (1)
This is pretty far outside what I normally read but the art pulled me in immediately. The premise hooked me because it takes greek mythology and drops it into a modern city with office jobs, tabloids, and messy parties. The tension between Persephone being sworn into TGOEM and Hades is pretty great. Honestly though, my favorite part is Hades' dogs. There's a whole pack of them and every single scene they show up in is great. The art is the best part by far. The colors do so much of the work, with Persephone in all that pink against Hades' dark blues and purples, and a lot of the panels look more like paintings than normal webtoon art. My issue is the pacing. A lot of episodes are just characters talking in a room, and I catch myself skimming the smaller conversations to get to the parts that actually move things forward. It also gets way darker than I expected, especially everything with Apollo, so it's definitely not the light romance the first few episodes make it look like.