I LOVED the opportunity to read this as an ARC! And while I'm very familiar with this series, I absolutely felt a bit lost at the beginning trying to figure out who was mad at who and why.

Icarus and Poseidon was NOT a pairing I would have seen coming, but this one was full of fantastic spice. I really want to go back and read the ones between this and Wicked Beauty so I get a better understanding of what is going on and can better appreciate the stakes.

I do agree with other reviewers that I wanted a bit more depth in the relationship, but at the same time it was a good gratuitous spicy read, so I'm not all that upset by it.

I enjoyed the book. It moved the overall plot forward while explaining. The writing was engaging as well as the pacing of the story not dragging. I liked learning about the motivations for the different character that we met before.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and Sourcebooks for the gifted e-book ❤️ #gifted. My review is comprised of my honest thoughts.

Read if you like: Dual POV, mythology retellings, LGBTQ representation, captive, spicy 🔥

Yessss. I loved it! Their chemistry, their banter, the spice. 🔥 Whooooo. It's very insta lust, but I'm here for it. I highly recommend it!

I think I'm ready to give up on this series. I simultaneously wouldn't recommend this as a standalone, AND believe it could be completely skipped with no impact on the overarching series plot.

The relationship lacks chemistry and leans harder into BDSM - a bit boring if spanking isn't your thing. The romance is rushed, and the siege on Olympus is a bait & switch. The series is dragging along, and the motives STILL are not clear. As the romances get weaker, I'm not inclined to continue; both plot lines can't be weak!

Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for providing an eARC for review..

I always love reading Katee Robert. Her Dark Olympus series is always one of my favorites. I love the characters’ relationships, but also the world building with each book.

Oh man the writing in this series is always so great and I really loved this latest installment about Poseidon and Icarus. Icarus is held captive by Poseidon and they end up falling in love with each other and it is so great. Olympus is on the verge of war and these two broken souls finding each other in spite of all the obstacles surrounding them is so great. This was a fun and fast read and we are heading to the end and I can't wait.

Thanks to Sourcebooks Casablanca and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.

My beloved cat, a special part of my family since her birth, had been struggling with health issues for some time. As I began reading this book, her condition sadly worsened. When I woke up at three in the morning, I knew these were her final hours. I picked her up, and, not knowing what else to do, I opened the book and continued reading. I'm one of those people who, in the most difficult situations, turn to books for solace. I have to admit, I never thought that a steamy paranormal novel about a war between the Olympian gods could distract and comfort me in my darkest hour. But somehow, Katee Robert managed to do just that. And if that's not enough to make you want to read her book, I don't know what will be.

This world that Katee Robert has created for the Dark Olympus series is incredible. For the past few books, I’ve really found myself so invested in finding out what is in store for the end of this series and where all of our characters will end up! I find Robert’s writing to always be engaging and quick to read, and this book is no exception. While the tropes for the romance within this book aren’t my favorite overall, the political intrigue is what keeps me returning to this series. As we are nearing the end, I will continue to devour each and every installment. Also, the ending was absolutely perfect for these characters (Poseidon most of all in my opinion) and I do think it was my favorite part of the whole book.

Thank you Net Galley and publishers for giving me an arc of this book in return for an honest review.

Ugh how I love this series. Any Katee Robert book honestly, if she wrote it, I'll read it, especially this series. I'm sad we only have a couple more books and then it's all over. I have loved every one but Hades will still be my favorite. But the way Poseidon is, ugh he really is too good for this world. Just a giant cinnamon roll of a man and the Icarus takes care of him is really sweet. I love that Poseidon never uses his power over Icarus and it's all consensual and they slowly fall in love in the middle of a freaking war. The world is ending but their relationship isn't. I am curious how the way went though and what happened to Circe but I have to wait two more books to find out. This series has me in a chokehold.

Amazing plot, characters and definitely keeps you hooked. intriguing story and so excited for the next installment.

I DNF’d this book. It just was not for me unfortunately. I wanted to love it, but just couldn’t connect.

This is perfect for those who love Greek mythology retellings. It was a spicy, modernized romance that was easily able to be devoured!

Thank you to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book.

I have told myself a hundred times that I would stop reading this series. I am a fantasy reader and generally find romance boring. I found these books downright offensive at times. And yet, I request every single one I see on NetGalley. I don't know what voodoo powers Katee Roberts has to make me unable to stop reading these books but I can tell you I don't love them and I wouldn't recommend them. Once you start, you simply cannot stop, unfortunately. The one gripe I normally have about this series is that the romances are so freaking quick. They often love each other before the first 100-page mark. It is unbelievable and so repetitive. Katee Roberts tries so hard to make every book stand out from the others by creating unique kinks and relationship scenarios but it all feels like too much. Again, romance is not my preferred genre, but if I had the choice, I would take out every relationship in these books and just read it for the plot. I do generally enjoy the discussion on power dynamics prevalent in Olympus and the veil that separates them from the rest of the world. If the romance had more of a focus on yearning and love rather than lust, perhaps I would feel differently. All of that being said, I will of course be picking up the next book. Someone, please save me. 2/5 stars.

One of my favor rite things about this series is the interconnected storyline. Being able to follow the story from Poseidon and Icarus was fun. They brought a new dynamic to the table that was different from the other couples but just as entertaining and heart warming. I loved that two broken souls found happiness in one another.

The war against Circe is still on going, but I am excited to see what happens in the next book.

I had a lot of fun reading this book. I initially wasn't too sure about the dynamic of captive/captor falling for each other, but it worked for the book. I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book in this series.

This was a very heartfelt and sexy romance that goes perfectly in this series and also gives us insight into other characters and some of the main plot as a whole.

I am a fan of the Dark Olympus series, so when I got the opportunity to read this book, I was beyond excited. This is the story of Poseidon and Icarus, the story of captive turning into a lover. While this may not be everyone’s cup of tea, I enjoyed the storyline. Yes, there is spice, but there is spice in other Dark Olympus stories. I did not find this book to be long winded and it kept my attention.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and publisher for the e-arc of this book.

Sweet Obsession is the seventh book in Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series. A series which has followed a different set of main characters from far and wide across the vastness of Greek Mythology, re-telling and re-imagining their stories and who they are told with. Mixing things up from time to time, just to keep things interesting. We're given a brand new insight into the lives, secrets and darkness of the citizens of both the upper and lower cities but more specifically of the 'Thirteen' and their close ones. Familiar names and their subsequent stories we have come to know since our childhoods from Greek myth have new life breathed into them, and its Katee Robert who provides said breath.

Way back in its beginnings, the Dark Olympus series hit the ground running with a strong, dominating and mysterious opener. Neon Gods , headlined by the God of the underworld himself, Hades, who was partnered up perfectly with his soon-to-be obsession, Persephone. These two and their stories we are--those of us with a fascination for Greek Mythology--are already familiar with them. However, for those of us who are not already familiar with them or their origins, you are about to meet them under a whole new set of situations and circumstances that will firmly cement them into your minds where they will take root for the foreseeable. At least, that is what happened with me. Since starting the series with them, they remain firmly unforgettable and floating around my mind, whispering subtly now and again to crack their story open one more time.

Seven books on, Hades and Persephone have stepped down as the main feature of the series. Though they are not too far away, making appearances when relevant. Other players have stepped forward to take fictional centre. Ladies and gentlemen, your ensemble for this dark play so far are:

💙 Hades 𝑥 Persephone (Neon Gods)
🩷 Eros 𝑥 Psyche (Electric Idol)
💚 Achilles 𝑥 Helen 𝑥 Patroclus (Wicked Beauty)
❤️ Apollo 𝑥 Cassandra (Radiant Sin)
💜 Hephaestus 𝑥 Aphrodite + Adonis 𝑥 Pandora (Cruel Seduction)
🖤 Orpheus 𝑥 Eurydice 𝑥 Charon (Midnight Ruin)
❤️ The Minotaur 𝑥 Ariadne (Dark Restraint)
🩷 Poseidon 𝑥 Icarus (Sweet Obsession)

Katee has kept a list of who is who, and who appears in which book in full--including spoilers for books nine and ten--over on her Instagram account. Take a look if you'd like to see, for the most part, who is part of the series in its entirety. Additionally, you can sign up for her newsletter which keeps you in the Dark Olympus loop at all times.

If, like myself, you have followed the series book by book from where the story started--when everything was still very much unknown, unseen and remained a complete mystery as to those within the thirteen and lives they lead--you will be fully aware of just how much has changed since then. Some lives and fates have rapidly changed, while others are slower or still incomplete as to their fate as of this latest story. Some people and their fates remain in the shadows, waiting for their moment of destiny, which will now come to them sooner rather than later with only two books remaining. The world of those who live within and outside the realm of Olympus, their fate, lies in the hands of those who will either bring total oblivion, a new reign of terror or something else entirely. Who survives? Who will see things through until the end? Those answers lie no longer ahead of us, but directly ahead.

Icarus, instead of flying too close to the sun that looks down over all, fell instead. Did he land somewhere soft? Safe? No. Not in the slightest. He landed, quite literally, in the clutches of Poseidon. Sea god to Olympus and one of the thirteen right at the time when instead of easing into the laid back life of a captive, both are on tenterhooks as Olympus teeters even further towards the point of inevitable destruction. That and the fact that the eyes of his captor don't look at him with rage or disgust, but with lust, passion and hunger.

Being one of the thirteen at the time when the city's darkest hours are approaching, Poseidon doesn't have a lot of free time. That free time is even less than it was, now that he is both captor and babysitter to Icarus. Unfortunately for him, he has absolutely no choice in the matter. With Olympus now officially at war and Icarus being a bargaining chip within said war, it falls to no one other than him to keep the little chip safely tucked away.

Lines start to blur for Poseidon the longer that he spends with Icarus, with feelings of loathing slowly turn to those resembling care and affection and the realisation that Icarus might not be the enemy that he has always portrayed to be and that he has thought of him to be, too. Vulnerability emanates from his every pore, and that isn't something Poseidon can easily fight or ignore partially or entirely.

Soon, Circe and the Aeaens are no longer on the horizon but are at the very gates of Olympus, poised and ready to strike and topple the city once and for all. For Poseidon this means one thing, to do one thing that he has been putting off until the hour is almost upon him where he has no other choice but to make the hardest of decisions. Does he think of himself and his long-cemented allegiances first? Or does he think about the man who has stolen his heart and sail away with him to safer shores?

Either way, one of them will end up broken.

With the closing of Dark Restraint, we were left on a bearable cliffhanger as to the fate of Icarus and Poseidon as we watched The Minotaur & Ariadne sail to safety. How and why that came to be, you'll have to read their story to see. Cliffhangers from books 1-9 are going to be inevitable as each piece of the puzzle is slowly slotted into place but as previously mentioned, they are bearable because there is more to look forward to so that we aren't dangling off the cliff, but instead safely toeing on the edge of it. Glimpsing ahead at the horizon, mulling over what we've just read and theorising what is yet to come. That is the brilliance of Katee's writing here with this series. We're left sated, satisfied and edged all at the same time, and we love it.

Choppy waters have now become a constant unsettled pattern of unpredictable ups and downs as this leg of the adventure leaves things in a precarious place where quite literally anything could happen next and as the saying goes, 'everything will usually get worse before it gets better'. If those that thought that they have been through tough times before (or have somehow escaped contributing towards saving Olympus entirely, their time of sitting back comfortably), the time has come for them to think again as they must pull up all of the reserved strength within them to turn towards the foe and prepare for the impending final battle where all will be won or as its looking right now, lost.

Leading us there, where we will be metaphorically standing shoulder to shoulder with those who will actually partake in said final battle, is not in fact any of the characters who we have come to love and champion as they've been dancing between life, death and fate, but the mistress of their and their world's creation, Ms Katee Robert.

See you all in book nine, Tender Cruelty

once again, katee fed up in this new installment of the dark olympus series. my favourite thing about it (beside the many zeus & hera crumbs) is how the plot is starting to be very “eat the rich” like. I love seeing a political statement woven in the plot. especially knowing the author

this book felt a bit like a filler, which in a way is understandable. it’s not my fav in the series just bc this book didn’t accomplish a lot during most of the story. we circled back a lot, zeushera were there but so much mystery is surrounding them still, the romance wasn’t as thrilling as I expected it to be and bc I was so focused on the plot that the part of the story wasn’t something I really cared for (even if poseidon was the CUTEST). but once again it’s really understandable bc the two biggest stories are following

NOW GIVE ME TENDER CRUELTY PLS

ratings : 3.5⭐️ 3.25🌶️

When the Dark Olympus series began I loved the first few books and was excited it was going to be a 10 book series. Now, I’m ready for it to end. The insta love between Poseidon and Icarus felt very rushed to seem believable. I’ll continue the series until we get to book 10 but these last few releases feel like fillers.