The gods want her dead ⊠Hades will bury them.
Youâd think Iâd have learned by now:
Donât mouth off to deities.
Donât fall for the King of the Underworld.
And definitely donât get dragged into a divine death match where Iâm the cursed mortal prize.
But here I amâtrapped in Tartarus, humanityâs worst pit stop, squaring off against monsters who make the gods look merciful. Titans, twisted by centuries of rage and ruin, are sealed behind seven ancient locks.
And guess what?
I'm the key.
To escape, Iâll have to survive every horrifying trial they throw at me.
To win, I might have to become something the gods never saw coming.
Oh, and Hades?
He's about to break every rule the gods ever wrote.
Because to save me ⊠the god of death will burn the world.
But if I break free? So do the Titans.
And the world wonât just sufferâit'll beg for the end.
Why You Should Read This Book
Tropes
Trigger Warnings
The Things Gods Break
âTell Rhea that I will love her even in the ether. Tell my children that their faces are the images I held on to when I died. That I always loved them.â
âThis place is a mind fuck, and that might be the most dangerous part of it.â
âThe only way to open Tartarus, to escape, is for someone who is not a Titan to unseal all seven.â
âYour penance is to let go of your guilt, knowing that if there had been any other way, you would have found it.â
âA father should always be the one who sacrifices for his child.â
âItâs like you are only completely yourself when they are near you. Like filling a hollow place inside you.â
âSome fates are bound to a specific event or action. Maybe thatâs you. Boone has made many things here different. Maybe the two of you together is the reason you get out.â
âI always loved being a father. I miss it. Miss my children sorely. I guess I justâŠwanted to give you those happy memories that you craved and remember myself what it felt likeâbeing a father with his daughterâeven for a second.â
âI have the strangest sense, my star, that you are going to be trouble.â
âJust so long as you realize that there are things I canât tell you and questions I canât answer, and itâs not because Iâm breaking trust.â
âPerhaps the Fates have bound us together, and even separated by time and a corporeal form, I can feel that.â
âI will go with you. Because the last thing a mother would ever want is for her child to regret what they did in a moment of brokenness.â
âI promise Iâm more trouble than even you imagine.â
âSatisfaction. Possessiveness. My Hades would have looked at me in the same way.â
âWhen you find yourself questioning anything in there, especially what you have to do, hold on to this. It will feel the same no matter what is happening. It will ground you to reality. And when you get out, Iâll put the pieces back together.â
âYou, Lyra KeresâŠare prophesied to be our savior someday. Personally, Iâd like for that to be sooner rather than later.â
âOh, and stay away from the cracks of broken time. If you do or say the wrong thing to someone from the past, youâll reset time for everyone.â
âMy test is to survive the poison of evil that can affect all mortals.â
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