Hades' Daughter: Book One of the Troy Game

By Sara Douglass

Book Overview

The Troy Game, Book I Hades' Daughter Ancient Greece is a place where mortals are the playthings of the gods--but at the core of each mortal city-state is a Labyrinth, where the mortals can shape the heavens to their own design. When Theseus comes away from the Labyrinth with the prize of freedom and his beloved Ariadne, the Mistress of the Labyrinth, his future seems assured. But she bears him only a daughter--and when he casts her aside for this, the world seems to change. From that day forward, the Labyrinths decay, and power fades from the city-states. A hundred years pass, Troy falls, the Trojans scatter. Then Brutus, the warrior-king of Troy, receives a vision of distant shores where he can rebuild the ancient kingdom. He will move heaven and earth to reach his destiny. But in the mists is a woman of power, a descendent of Ariadne, who has her own reasons for luring Brutus to this lush land. Her heart is filled with a generations-old hatred, and her vengeance on him will not be thwarted. If Brutus makes the journey successfully, it will be the next step in the Game of the Labyrinth, and the beginning of a complicated contest of wills that will last for centuries...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765344424
• ISBN13: 9780765344427
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent (albeit tragic) series

Hades Daughter seemed to start out very slow for me, but it picked up fairly quickly and kept my attention till the end (as did the 2nd book in the series). This story really affected me...it is both disturbing and tragic. In some places I would feel angry or disgusted at how a character was acting, other places I would be incredibly sad. There really aren't any happy endings in the 1st or 2nd book, and the way it's going...

The Fury of a Woman Scorned

Hades' Daughter is the first novel in the Troy Game series. Millennia ago, during the late Bronze Age, the king of Athens was forced to send seven youths and seven maidens to Crete every nine years. There they were left in the dark maze of the Labyrinth to become victims of Asterion, the Minotaur son of the Minoan king. One year, the Athenian king sent Theseus, his own son, to Crete among the sacrificial levy. Theseus...

can't wait for the next one!

This book does start off a little slow, but stick with it! This is the first Sara Douglass book I've read, and it will not be the last. Great action, memorable characters, and a plot that just keeps twisting! I read in a previous review that this book is some sort of testament to the abused woman scenario. I assure you that this is not true. The character of Cornelia can give as well as she gets. The constant power struggle...

Hades' Daughter

I have never read Sara Douglass, but this was the BEST book that I have read in a long time. After reading Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan, it was a awesome to finally read an epic that showed how REAL people act. The storyline flowed, and I enjoyed the mixed perspectives. Cornelia's point of view really added to the story. I finished the book two days ago, and I cannot stop thinking about it. Douglass's writing style...

Great blend of mythology and fantasy

I loved this book for its wonderful storytelling and use of Greek mythology. The book begins with a retelling of the myth of the death of the Minotaur in Crete, and the betrayal of Ariadne by Theseus. Hell hath no fury as that of a scorned woman, and this book takes that to extremes. You see how hatred twists and warps a woman's soul, and those of her progeny.Yet there are two sides to every story, and this book tells both...