Avoiding spoilers, but that one instance would have maybe been served by a dual POV (though that would probably be disruptive to the novel) or a different manner of discovery, it just wasn't that emotionally impactful for me because it was so outside Lore.
Most of the narrative rests on her character journey, which does make one of the reveals at the end kind of lackluster because it is related to someone else's memories, and Lore does not actively participate in that plot reveal. Lore is very focused on Lore's emotional journey. I will say that her Greek gods certainly bring the flavor of the original Greek myths, this story is violent, and I completely would not recommend it to a young audience, which makes some of the PJO comp potentially confusing. It also has Alexandra Brackens signature deep backstory dives in a way I really enjoyed this go around. This book is fast-paced and is very focused on Lore's emotional journey a lot of character exploration is fit into 7 days. I knew going into this book, I was probably going to love it, I loved her previous YA books, and I really enjoy her fast-paced writing, character-focused emotional journeys, and I love a long book (long is obviously genre/age group subjective here, she writes long YA). Lore is Alexandra Bracken's first standalone novel since her debut (which I should read soon). The story absolutely sprints from this point.
She is unsuccessful when a wounded Athena shows up on her doorstep and demands Lore help her. Lore's family was murdered in the previous Agon, and she has completely cut ties from her previous life and is trying to stay out of the Agon entirely. The descendants of different old school Greek heroes must hunt down these gods (Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Posiden, and Dionysus) who are made mortal for the 7 days, and if successfully killed the person who did it takes that gods immortality and aspects of their power.
The Agon happens every 7 years and is a punishment for 9 of the Greek gods who defied Zeus back in the day. It is the story of our main character, Lore, an orphan living in NYC, who we meet as a competition called the Agon begins. Lore is being pitched as Percy Jackson meets The Hunger Games, which is a pretty solid comp.
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