Styx: The River

by Nikita Gill, Unknown Author

Hardcover

About the author

Nikita Gill is a Kashmiri Sikh writer born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and brought up in Gurugram, Haryana in India. In her mid twenties, she immigrated to the South of England and worked as a carer for many years. She enjoys creating paintings, poems, stories, photos, illustrations and other soft, positive things. Her work has appeared in Literary Orphans, Agave Magazine, Gravel Literary Journal, Monkeybicycle, Foliate Oak, MusePiePress, Dying Dahlia Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, Eunoia Review, Corvus Review, After The Pause and elsewhere.

Reviews

[claudia reads it all]

Nikita Gill has a gift for gorgeous storytelling and for creating characters that cleave at your emotions.  I loved Hekate, and now we meet Styx, the not-beautiful daughter of two Titans, Oceanus and Tethys.

Her upbringing is not a happy one but she forms a bond with a Titan, Asteria, who will eventually become the mother of Hekate.  Styx resents her parents, and the hierarchy that has been created with her brothers being granted godhood while she and her sisters only exist to serve and nurture.  She meets and marries Pallas, and they have four children.

But war is brewing, more specifically, the Titanomachy - the war where the Titans fought the Olympians, with the latter being victorious.  Styx, who has felt alone for most of her life, finds that her priorities have changed.  More than anything now, she wants to keep her children safe.

This is a story full of heartbreak and ever-changing loyalties, beautifully told - and now I wait for the third in this trilogy.

[EJ]

Once again a superb Nikita Gill book, I devoured it and felt sad that it was over and I will have to wait some time before Nix is released as the third in Gill’s trilogy.

There were many new characters in this book that I enjoyed meeting and it is interesting that perhaps all three of the Goddesses from the trilogy may share a power that they are not supposed to have as Goddesses and maybe it is this that connects them to mere mortals.

I think that Gill writes interesting depictions of parents, particularly the mother/ daughter relationship- they don’t naturally mean that a child will follow suit and not all mothers are created equal.

[Luna]

Outstanding!

Just like the first in the trilogy, Hekate. Can’t wait for the last one.

[Laura Giacobbe]

Loved it!