The Things Gods Break

The Things Gods Break

Abigail Owen

First published 2025

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 1038 ratingsEarly score · confidence 21%
  • NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #3

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About the book

You’d think I’d have learned by now: Don’t mouth off to deities. Don’t fall for the King of the Underworld. And definitely don’t get dragged into a divine death match where I’m the cursed mortal prize. But here I am―trapped in Tartarus, humanity’s 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, I’ll 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 won’t just suffer―it'll beg for the end.

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.4 across 38 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 21% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 8.1 comes out.

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