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Lore Olympus #10

Lore Olympus: Volume Ten

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Expected 2 Jun 26
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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, Paperback

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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1,207 reviews102k followers
Want to Read
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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1,312 reviews15 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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230 reviews54 followers
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December 9, 2025
06/02/26?!?! Yup. I will be right here!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽!!!
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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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327 reviews6 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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230 reviews37 followers
January 27, 2026
4.5⭐️

imma just leave this quote here:

“No matter what, I will find my way back to you. If there is water, I will build a ship. If our love is forgotten then I will fall in love with you all over again. If I must live as a mortal I will die in your arms and return in your arms and return home to you once more. No matter what Erebus, the Fates, or the universe have planned for us, I will find my way back to you."


i’m actually so sad that i can’t do some witchcraft and get a hades for myself
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223 reviews30 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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123 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Historia
January 10, 2026
Me he sentido bastante satisfecha con el final, y eso que pensaba que no iba a ser así, porque sentía que solo se alargaba, pero me equivoqué y ha sido precioso. Todo ha encajado tan bien que, después de tantos años siguiéndola, pero no acabándola, mi yo de ese momento, está tranquila.

"–Contigo me siento a salvo para ser yo misma, pero también para explorar quién podría llegar a ser. Aidoneo, eres mi corazón. Prometo siempre darlo todo para hacer sentirte tan especial como tú me haces sentir a mí.

–Perséfone, déjame sentarme a tu lado cuando te sientas sola. Déjame celebrar contigo cuando estés feliz. Déjame abrazarte cuando llores. Es un honor ser tu esposo. Prometo darte todo lo que quieras y todo lo que necesites."
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478 reviews1 follower
Review of advance copy
February 6, 2026
LONG LIVE THE KING AND QUEEN
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704 reviews1 follower
February 25, 2026
Was getting to the point where I was waiting for this to end, but the author surprised me and created another round of intrigue.
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11 reviews
April 11, 2026
i swear this had potential but the dark romance people got their hands on it
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159 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Otros
February 1, 2026
lo voy a echar de menos
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823 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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147 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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826 reviews4 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!!
Review of advance copy
March 30, 2026
DISCLAIMER: I paid to read the series on webtoon (paid for no wait) so that is why I’m reviewing before the physical book is out.

I love this series. I made the mistake of reading them all at once and reviewing them after instead of reviewing in between finishing them, so my reviews may be a bit skewed.

Honestly, this volume was pretty underwhelming, which I hate to say as a fan of the series. A lot of the events that happened like persephone’s coronation and the wedding felt really rushed and didn’t have the time they deserved. I’m a big lover of slow burn, but it felt like it was being put off and then suddenly last minute we rushed through that really important moment every reader was excited for. It kind of made me think “ok well that happened” instead of what the other volumes built it up to be. Also the return of Kronos was really lazy to me sadly. I felt that it wasn’t interesting for him to be a villain in the story twice, and I felt that both Kronos encounters could’ve been consolidated to one to make a big climax instead of having him comeback twice.
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487 reviews68 followers
April 11, 2026
Gorgeous as always although I’d forgotten that she’d made Demeter, Hestia and Hera daughters of Metis instead of Rhea to avoid having incest in the story but it felt a bit silly seeing as they’re deities and there’s already so many other problematic aspects to the figures already. Anyway baby Dionysus was a treat, it’s a shame I don’t think we’ll see him grown and interacting with like Hermes or Ares as the next volume is the last one. As I mentioned in my reading update for this volume, the last chapter I read as the series was coming to a close is in the last 140 pages of this volume which is why I genuinely don’t know how it’s going to end and I kinda like that. Also the fact that the covers for the the last two volumes are in Rachel’s new art style is pretty fun, they look gorgeous
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116 reviews4 followers
February 9, 2026
VOLUMEN 10
1) 23/06/24 - 04/07/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
🌸228 - me sorprendiste Ares, al darme información sobre las diosas de la fertilidad.
🌸Final 235 - pinche Zeus… cuando por fin comenzabas a redimirte…
🌸Me imagine y no a la vez que pudiera haber algo así en el pasado de Demeter… pinche vieja…
🌸231 al 235 - Propuesta de matrimonio, boda y noche de bodas….
🌸239 - Irrupción en los sueños



VOLUMEN 11 (251 - 280)
1)04/07/24 - 23/07/25 ✨✨✨✨✨
🌸259 - Frase hermosa
🌸264 - info diosas de la fertilidad
🌸272 - Entendimiento de los nuevos poderes de Persefone.
🌸277 - excelente frase sobre la ira
🌸Fue un final perfecto….
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25 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Autre
April 6, 2026
Rating: 3.75 ☆

I still like this series very much, but I would say I enjoyed this installment less than the last couple of tomes. I found the previous ones to be very well balanced overall, whereas this one seemed so heavy on psychology (therapy) that it did not feel authentic. In certain sections, it was almost caricatural.

I love self-help and am very sensitive to this kind of narrative, but here it felt somewhat forced, to the point where it broke my immersion. That being said, I’m still very invested in the plot and think the series overall is amazing and unique.
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139 reviews
January 7, 2026
First read: Volume Ten (4⭐️)

Second read: place holder for Volume Eleven [to be announced & published] (5⭐️)
➡️This was an incredible ending to the series. I loved that all the loose ends were tied up and all of the trauma (generational and otherwise) was addressed in some way or another.


***Counting Volume Ten as Episode 234-253 and Volume Eleven as 254-280 (end) [I’m guessing V. Ten is roughly 400 pages and V. Eleven is around 440]
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1,366 reviews1,652 followers
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
January 26, 2026
Lore Olympus: Volume One ★★★ 1/2
Lore Olympus: Volume Two ★★★★
Lore Olympus: Volume Three ★★★★ 1/4
Lore Olympus: Volume Four ★★★★
Lore Olympus: Volume Five ★★★★
Lore Olympus: Volume Six ★★★★ 1/4
Lore Olympus: Volume Seven ★★★★ 1/4
Lore Olympus: Volume Eight ★★★★
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine ★★★★
Lore Olympus: Volume Ten ★★★★

I love how this is more than just a romance story. One more volume to go through which is sad!
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125 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Otros
February 2, 2026
3.5 ⭐ Me hubiera gustado que profundizara más en la relación con los niños. ¿Dionisio se la pasaba con una niñera? Al pobre nadie lo cuidó
Se resolvió todo muy rápido. Qué apareciera Urano en un solo capítulo y se lo derrotara tan fácil fue muy conveniente.
Pero sacando esos detallazos importantes, es mi novela gráfica favorita 💓
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6 reviews
Review of advance copy
February 18, 2026
I read this volume for free on Webtoons, the original location of this story. I read the first 8 volumes through physical copies but wanted to finish the story and couldn’t wait till the June publication!
Differences between online and physical copies are just typo corrections and some bonus artwork for the most part, but I can’t wait to get the physical copy when it comes out!
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316 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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139 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.
4 reviews
Review of advance copy
January 16, 2026
Completed the entire series originally on the Webtoons app. unique art style is what dreamy to the story and kept me until it was complete. Some of the relationship, drama and aspects of mental health didn’t quite hit, but it wasn’t bad enough to not complete the story.
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177 reviews
Review of advance copy received from Otros
January 30, 2026
Seguir esta historia fue lo mejor del universo, al fin pude terminar de leerlo y me pareció maravillosooooo. La ilustración, la narración, la construcción y desarrollo de personajes, todo fue maravillosoooo 😭 La leería una y mil veces más ❤️‍🩹
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152 reviews1 follower
Review of advance copy
February 15, 2026
I love the healthy relationship dynamic between Hades and Persephone so much! For so long there’s only been real
inappropriate inspired books (nothing wrong with that, but not my cup of tea). This series has been absolutely perfect
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33 reviews
Review of advance copy
February 19, 2026
I paid to read the series on Webtoon as it was being published. I have yet to buy the physical books but am planning to. Absolutely loved this story and currently just finished my second time through reading it over the last few days.
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