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Lore Olympus #10

Lore Olympus: Volume Ten

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Hades and Persephone get a modern, romantic reimagining in Lore Olympus, a gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning comic—now including a never-before-seen bonus short story!

“The Mortal Realm—it’s dying.”

After years of yearning, the big day has finally arrived: Hades and Persephone are getting married! It’s the ceremony of the century, and practically all the gods are invited to celebrate the happy couple. The wedding, full of love and joy, provides a much-needed respite for the pantheon . . . but the newlyweds have no time for a honeymoon.

The king and queen of the Underworld begin unprecedented dives into the dream world to find the god that Kronos took hostage—and, hopefully, to get answers on defeating the furious titan once and for all. During their explorations, they begin to suspect that Persephone’s powers over spring may have been altered. Their theory is proven correct with deadly consequences: When Persephone returns to the Mortal Realm, she ushers in not the regular change of seasons, but a never-ending winter.

And while the gods worry about the total annihilation of the Mortal Realm, Apollo uses the chaos as cover for an attempt to kill Zeus. He claims his dying father’s throne and decrees that the only way to save the Mortal Realm is if Persephone—and her power—belong to him. The others reject his outrageous demand, proposing instead that whoever can fix the failing seasons will be named interim ruler of Olympus. Hope now rests with the struggling goddess to find a way to stop the treacherous Apollo and save humankind—or else be separated from Hades forever.

This edition of Smythe’s original Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

This volume collects episodes 234–260 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.

448 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication June 2, 2026

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Rachel Smythe

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Rachel Smythe | #1 New York Times Bestselling Author


Rachel Smythe is the creator of the Webtoon phenomenon Lore Olympus. Debuting on Webtoon Originals in 2018, Lore Olympus captured hearts and minds with its glamorous setting, razor-sharp comedic timing, complex characters in messy relationships, and above all else, its breathtakingly beautiful visuals. Rachel’s craftsmanship and storytelling have seen the series rise to greater and greater success, winning many industry awards, including an Eisner in 2022 & 2023 and an animation adaptation with Jim Henson Studios currently in development.

"IF EYES COULD EAT, LORE OLYMPUS WOULD BE A FEAST." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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1,198 reviews102k followers
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October 23, 2025
Volume One ★★
Volume Two ★★★
Volume Three ★★★★
Volume Four ★★★
Volume Five ★★★
Volume Six ★★★★
Volume Seven ★★★
Volume Eight ★★★★
Volume Nine ★★★★

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187 reviews143 followers
Want to read
December 9, 2025
06/02/26?!?! Yup. I will be right here!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽!!!
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1,310 reviews13 followers
October 11, 2025
4.5✨

I read this for free on webtoons but I will end up buying a physical copy because the art is gorgeous. 😍

Honestly these ratings are purely based on vibes. I'm writing these reviews after finishing the entire webtoon so it's hard to pinpoint specific plots and I noted the ratings whilst reading. The story is so good I love the modern spins and twists on greek mythology and their story.
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4 reviews
October 8, 2025
I binged this series and my sleep schedule suffered - fair warning. I kicked my feet and giggled, I threw my phone in anger (at a certain purple man), and Icried in my room at 3a.m. All in all a pretty eventful time, great art, amazing use of colour (I am itching to do a study), would 100% recommend.
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296 reviews5 followers
November 18, 2025
some flaws became really apparent as the series dragged on. also the art and outfits got worse? i wonder if this was a victim of its own success and the creator was under certain pressures and time constraints.
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215 reviews28 followers
Review of advance copy
January 2, 2026
I finished it back on webtoon and, well, what can I say... I was disappointed. The ending feels rushed, there are many loose ends left or just sloppy one sentence explanations.
Because of all that... about 80% of the chapters throughout the series feel completely unnecessary, just dragging it all out. And I hate when stories are being dragged out just to squeeze more out of the fans.
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131 reviews
November 4, 2025
TEMPORADA 3

"Don't forget you're the Dread Queen."

Não acredito que acabou, eu já estou com saudades dos personagens😭😭😭

Essa foi uma temporada muito boa, as pontas soltas foram se encaixando e as situações foram se resolvendo. Eu ainda fiquei um pouco confusa com a parte do Kronos, mas eu não conheço praticamente nada de mitologia grega, estava lendo em inglês e meu inglês não é muito bom, o que pode ter dificultado um pouco o processo, mas o final foi muito bom, principalmente a forma como os personagens enfrentaram seus maiores medos... o Hades enfrentando o Kronos com tudo o que nunca tinha dito e Hera resolvendo encará-lo de frente ao invés de continuar aceitando sua situação foi incrível... a Hera foi simplesmente perfeita nesse livro. Além disso, a Persephone acabando com o Apollo fazendo ele perceber como ele tinha a machucado, fazendo ele sentir a dor que ela sentiu e fazendo ele confessar e pagar pelo crime foi muito satisfatório... cada vez que eu achava que ele não podia piorar, ele piorava muuuito, não fiquei nem surpresa que ele estava com o Ourano. Mas voltando para a Hera, vulgo uma das minhas personagens favoritas, como assim ela era um deusa da fertilidade????? E como assim o Zeus sabia e nunca falou pra ela???? Se bem que essa parte faz sentido porque o Zeus é um bosta... eu tinha esperança para ele depois daquele pedido de desculpas no começo da temporada, mas quando parecia que ele vai melhorar ele fazia alguma coisa que provava que ele não ia e ele ainda ficava colocando a culpa nos outros para os erros dele o que dava muita raiva.

A Persephone e o Hades são muito fofinhos juntos, o relacionamento deles é lindo e cheio de respeito e apoio mútuo principalmente um apoiando o outro com suas inseguranças. Além disso, nessa temporada, tivemos o casamento deles que foi muito lindo, mas sem a Demeter... fiquei com muita raiva dela em boa parte da temporada, porque ela não parava de impor suas vontades para Persephone sem se importar com o que ela queria, mas depois também fiquei com dó porque ela estava fazendo o mesmo que a mãe dela fez com ela e também estava tentando fazer com que a Persephone ficasse segura diferente do que aconteceu com o outro filho dela... ou seja, ela tinha seus motivos e até conseguiu expor um pouco esse seu lado na terapia (desde a temporada anterior acho as cenas da terapia bem interessantes) só que acabou machucando muito a Kore tentando fazer o que achava melhor, mas pelo menos no final ela reconheceu isso e elas conseguiram resolver esses problemas, por isso acredito que elas vão começar a ter uma relação mais saudável de mãe e filha. E falando em maternidade, achei muito fofo a Persephone adotando o Dionysos e a forma como a autora desenha bebês e crianças é tão linda, delicada e fofa (estou usando essa palavra demais, mas ela descreve exatamente o que eu achei), eu ameei. Em questão de amizade, também achei a amizade da Persephone com a Hera muito fofa, porque desde a temporada anterior deu pra ver que a Hera se importa muito com a Persephone, mas nessa aqui deu pra ver mais da Persephone sendo uma boa amiga pra Hera... eu amei a cena que a Hera ligou pra Persephone porque estava mal e ela foi literalmente correndo falar com ela... muito fofas não aguento!!!!

Além disso, como nas outras temporadas, outros personagens também foram muito bem trabalhados na história e eu gostei bastante que a autora resolveu dar um panorama geral do que aconteceu na vida deles no último capítulo, porque esse webtoon tem muitos personagens legais, como a Hecate, a Hestia, a Artemis e o Eros e eu queria saber como eles ia acabar no final. Mas uma personagem que eu não gosto, mas achei o arco interessante foi a Minthe... ao descobrir o que ela passou na infância foi mais fácil entender as suas ações e passar um paninho pra ela, embora eu prefira ela longe do Hades e da Persephone mesmo kkkkkk mas eu gostei bastante que ela se livrou daquela amizade tóxica com a Tethis, ninfa cujo passatempo favorito era causar intrigas. Além disso, o passado do Thanatos (o coitado sofreu) também explicou melhor o motivo da traição dele contra o Hades e nesse sentido, achei interessante como essa responsabilidade de ser a figura paterna do Thanatos assustava o Hades por fazê-lo se lembrar do péssimo relacionamento dele com o pai... achei legal que depois da conversa os dois estavam mais felizes e o Hades conseguiu lidar melhor com a descoberta da existência da sua filha Melinoe.

Por fim, no final teve uma nota em que a autora fala como Lore Olympus mudou sua vida e a história dela bem emocionante. Não li muitos webtoons então não tenho muita base para falar, mas ler Lore Olympus foi uma experiência muito boa, aconchegante e emocionante ao mesmo tempo, que eu com certeza recomendo!!!

Escrito em Agosto/2024.
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776 reviews3 followers
December 10, 2025
I read this on Webtoon. I had to guess when the volumes were divided up.

What I think will be volume 10: 233-253 (mid season finale)

Something about hades and persephone just seems forced. “Sweetie”??? Talk about a 0-100 relationship!

I think this is when the comic started to get very popular. The plot seems to drag in order to get longer episodes. But there are also increasing spelling errors

There is so much happening in this section to amplify the stakes. So many big plot points and many little ones that were started long ago. I want to keep up with artemis! She was such a big character in the beginning and now she’s barely in it

- Hera has been talking with kronos
- get married!! Demeter watches from the outside
- Zeus once told Demeter she could be queen of the gods
- Hades is interested in looking into people’s previously dreamed dreams
- Hermes learns of Apollo and Persephone
- Go into persephone’s dreams to go into kronos’s
- persephone speaks with erebos (the one who planted the pomegranate). And clings onto seeing baby hades
- Take a blood sample and then persephone acts weird… i know they only had sex last night but seems a little odd…
- Hephaestus’s AI goes to work for hades
- Persephone has a CHILD???
- zeus let a preemie baby grow in his thigh
- Persephone becomes a bad-ass confrontational person. Is this what was taken from her?
- Retrieve thanatos from mortal realm. Approached by demeter
- Artemis is rommates with hermes(?). Asks him for advice regarding apollo
- Persephone and demeter go to therapy
- Hestia helps hera with kronos
- Apollo uses kassandra because she can see a prophecy
- Persephone opens up about apollo!!
- Apollo is trying person zeus with an herb that poisoned kronos
- Spring ceremony! Hades and demeter make up??
- Persephone’s powers are strange. The prophecy star tells apollo she is a danger to the human race because she is bound to the underworld. Is THIS what was taken from her? Her ability to create spring??
- Apollo is following directions from krono’s father!!
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306 reviews8 followers
October 18, 2025
I have been binging this on WebToon and my heart can't take it. I haven't slept well two nights in a row and all I see now is pink and blue. I absolutely love this. The art is gorgeous and I really wish these could be purchased in my country, I love them all.
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751 reviews3 followers
Review of advance copy
December 21, 2025
Przeczytałam na WebToonie do końca...
Trudno mi uwierzyć że to już koniec. I wiem, że teraz nie znajdę podobnej książki i to trochę dziwne uczucie
Kocham mit o Persefonie, uwielbiam Hadesa. A przedstawienie tego tutaj to majstersztyk. Każdy fan tego motywu powinien to przeczytać i będzie zakochany.
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136 reviews6 followers
December 31, 2025
At the end of 2025 I finished a book series I started it 2019. I love this series. I have always loved and respected Greek mythology. It’s always been so beautiful to me. So thankful Rachel created this series and never gave up on what she wanted. It’s because of that we have this series forever.
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574 reviews1 follower
October 17, 2025
Persephone still fights her demons such as Hera who's battling with the shadow of Kronos.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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171 reviews
October 26, 2025
3.5⭐️
I think now that all the main couples are together I’m a little bored 😭. I did like the exploration of Persephones relationship with Demeter and Demeters relationship with her own mother!
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26 reviews1 follower
November 3, 2025
I love Lore Olympus🥰 I read the whole thing on webtoons and couldn’t stop. Every second of free time I had I was reading it. I am for sure buying the physical copies soon!
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455 reviews
November 9, 2025
The artwork with this story is so good. The storyline is great too.
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1,013 reviews
November 12, 2025
Was für ein Abschluss. Loved it! Freu mich schon auf den Reread nächstes Jahr, wenn ich den Band, dann im Regal stehen habe.
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157 reviews1 follower
December 2, 2025
Son pixeleeeeeesss, I NEED TO REMEMBER THAT.
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216 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
December 11, 2025
PHENOMENAL. wild, chaotic, crazy at the end, but everything ends happily ever after like we all wanted from the very beginning. thanks to the publisher for the ARC.
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38 reviews
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December 21, 2025
3.5/5 a tutta la serie. In realtà ho letto tutto il webtoon di fila tra il 7 (notte) e l'8 dicembre, per poi scoprire che si tratta di dieci volumi. Ho risanato il cuore della me adolescente
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