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The Korinniad
Korinna hasn’t been blessed by a single one of the gods, and especially not by one of the Olympians, but her life is going about as well as any servant girl could expect. That is, until she’s faced with the small issue of her village’s annual virgin sacrifice and the slightly larger issue that she has just become the perfect candidate.
She has a plan, though, and it’s simple enough: find a suitor and disqualify herself. But the gods have, as they say, enigmatic methods, and a very different plan is thrust upon our reluctant heroine. With the help of a winged demigod and his arrows of love, Korinna is sent on an epic journey to seek out her soul mate—not that she believes in such foolish things. But when faced with monsters, the Underworld, and her own untimely end, true love might start to look a little less ridiculous.
The Korinniad has some minor expletive language in the form of a "bad word" or two, so please be aware of that before picking this book up!
She has a plan, though, and it’s simple enough: find a suitor and disqualify herself. But the gods have, as they say, enigmatic methods, and a very different plan is thrust upon our reluctant heroine. With the help of a winged demigod and his arrows of love, Korinna is sent on an epic journey to seek out her soul mate—not that she believes in such foolish things. But when faced with monsters, the Underworld, and her own untimely end, true love might start to look a little less ridiculous.
The Korinniad has some minor expletive language in the form of a "bad word" or two, so please be aware of that before picking this book up!
299 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 31, 2020
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A.K. Caggiano
26 books1,834 followersAshley is an indie author who likes to write silly little stories that hopefully bring readers joy. She likes cats, guacamole, feminism, and the internet.
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June 24, 2024
The unseriousness of this book is what makes it so funny for me. It’s a quick cute and funny reading.
But I really don’t like this cover.
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August 19, 2024“Love will make you see the world differently. It is transformative. It will convince you to make the right decisions, the hard decisions, and they will not even feel hard at all. Love will free you.”
March 12, 2023
I can’t get enough of A.K Caggiano’s books! I just love how fun they are. The characters were so fun and quirky, and I couldn’t put this one down. Also the Moulin Rouge references were enough to make me fall in love with this book!
October 20, 2021
This is a fun read. I particularly enjoyed the humor, which was very well timed.
July 2, 2021
After spilling a glass of wine on the general overseeing her small island village, Korinna finds herself at the top of the list to be the next virgin sacrifice to ensure the harvest. So, to get out of being a virgin sacrifice, she’ll have to lose her virginity and with no suitable single men in the village, her best friend, the priestess of the village, prays to the gods for help. The gods decide to use her prayer as a contest, and the god who helps her find true love will win the prize. Aphrodite sends Korinna a winged Erote named Nikeros to guide her on a quest to meet with three suitors selected by Athena, Hera, and Apollo, and to shoot them with love arrows making them amorously follow Korinna around (like Pepe le Pew and the cat). This is an epic adventure facing three-headed beasts, visiting the depths of Hades, facing Cerberus, and meeting plenty of gods and goddesses along the way.
I’ve always been a sucker for Greek Mythology. While, I didn’t agree with everything in this book, it was an often silly, exaggerated, fantastic journey. It did meander and felt overly long, but then the ancient Greek epics did too. Like the ancient Greek epics, it journeyed from place to place, like the Odyssey, like an epic road trip, finding adventures along the way. There were two main points I didn’t care for. I didn’t care for the use of swear words. I have in fact made a vow to knock off a star if the author uses swear words in a story. Yeah…I liked the book too much. But still, it really didn’t need the swear words, so I don’t know why the author stoops to using them. The other thing I didn’t care for was the author and muse breaking the flow of the story every so often to give their two cents into things. In my imagination, I can imagine the heroine as being real, and then the author suddenly butts in, reminding me that the heroine is really just a written character ruining my suspension of disbelief. I did like Korinna, who looked at things with a grain of salt, trying to see through the pompous exteriors of the gods, and see the suitors realistically instead of ideally as the gods thought of them. And I loved her plan to lose her virginity got derailed and suddenly found herself having to trudge through an epic quest instead, and she actually went with it with little complaint. I did like the romance, and even though the whole quest was about finding love, she tried to deny it and think of herself as being above it. And, yes, I loved Nikos, who loved his job. I also loved that we got to meet his family (though he didn’t seem all that attached to his brother) and we got to understand his background. I loved all of the mythological references. I did think the underworld was rather cheesy with trying to add in a modern world within it. And though the gods and goddesses all felt very chick-lit socialite personalities, over-dramatic, and overly cartooned (think like the gods and goddesses in Disney’s Hercules), and the suitors and most of the other characters felt that way as well. And I never really understood who Theodotus was or why he was so important as a prize. But there was plenty of action and adventure in this as Korinna fights against monsters, and fends off amorous suitors, and learns what she’s really looking for in a relationship, and actually deals advice to the gods along the way.
I’ve always been a sucker for Greek Mythology. While, I didn’t agree with everything in this book, it was an often silly, exaggerated, fantastic journey. It did meander and felt overly long, but then the ancient Greek epics did too. Like the ancient Greek epics, it journeyed from place to place, like the Odyssey, like an epic road trip, finding adventures along the way. There were two main points I didn’t care for. I didn’t care for the use of swear words. I have in fact made a vow to knock off a star if the author uses swear words in a story. Yeah…I liked the book too much. But still, it really didn’t need the swear words, so I don’t know why the author stoops to using them. The other thing I didn’t care for was the author and muse breaking the flow of the story every so often to give their two cents into things. In my imagination, I can imagine the heroine as being real, and then the author suddenly butts in, reminding me that the heroine is really just a written character ruining my suspension of disbelief. I did like Korinna, who looked at things with a grain of salt, trying to see through the pompous exteriors of the gods, and see the suitors realistically instead of ideally as the gods thought of them. And I loved her plan to lose her virginity got derailed and suddenly found herself having to trudge through an epic quest instead, and she actually went with it with little complaint. I did like the romance, and even though the whole quest was about finding love, she tried to deny it and think of herself as being above it. And, yes, I loved Nikos, who loved his job. I also loved that we got to meet his family (though he didn’t seem all that attached to his brother) and we got to understand his background. I loved all of the mythological references. I did think the underworld was rather cheesy with trying to add in a modern world within it. And though the gods and goddesses all felt very chick-lit socialite personalities, over-dramatic, and overly cartooned (think like the gods and goddesses in Disney’s Hercules), and the suitors and most of the other characters felt that way as well. And I never really understood who Theodotus was or why he was so important as a prize. But there was plenty of action and adventure in this as Korinna fights against monsters, and fends off amorous suitors, and learns what she’s really looking for in a relationship, and actually deals advice to the gods along the way.
January 25, 2026
Another awesome book by AKCAGGIANO. Love her and what she writes. So funny and down to earth despite being in a different world. Love love
Love.
Love.
June 23, 2020
What a fun book! Korinna, a worker in a pottery factory, is about to come of age and, as a virgin of no consequence, is the perfect person to sacrifice to the Monster in the Pit in order to ensure the fertility of the annual crops. She decides to attempt to lose her virginity deliberately and a local priestess finds a way to convince the gods to intervene in her behalf. Athena, Hera, and Apollo are each to provide a man whom Korinna might choose to be her “adelphi-psychi” – her soul-mate. Aphrodite provides one of the Erotes (Cupids in later terminology), whose name is Nikeros, to shoot love arrows at each man so he will become infatuated with Korinna.
So the scene is set for a hilarious and mostly light-hearted romp through the world of the Greek gods. The three Fates start the story in motion, and along the way we meet Ares, Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, and finally Hades himself. We achieve the requisite visit to the Underworld and it’s an Underworld quite different from any other you’ve ever encountered. Charon is a surprise, and you’ll particularly enjoy the rendition of Hades (the god) and of his hound Cerberus. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler when I say, Korinna does find her adelphi-psychi and they all live happily ever afterward.
The author has a terrific imagination and a light touch (with a few satiric barbs thrown in); I particularly enjoyed the asides where the author argues with her own Muse. If you know a little bit about Greek mythology, you’ll probably appreciate the tale more, but if you want more information, you can always look up the allusions. I would recommend this tale for anyone who wants a spritely, irreverent, and fast-moving fun fest. Just what we all need right now!
So the scene is set for a hilarious and mostly light-hearted romp through the world of the Greek gods. The three Fates start the story in motion, and along the way we meet Ares, Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, and finally Hades himself. We achieve the requisite visit to the Underworld and it’s an Underworld quite different from any other you’ve ever encountered. Charon is a surprise, and you’ll particularly enjoy the rendition of Hades (the god) and of his hound Cerberus. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler when I say, Korinna does find her adelphi-psychi and they all live happily ever afterward.
The author has a terrific imagination and a light touch (with a few satiric barbs thrown in); I particularly enjoyed the asides where the author argues with her own Muse. If you know a little bit about Greek mythology, you’ll probably appreciate the tale more, but if you want more information, you can always look up the allusions. I would recommend this tale for anyone who wants a spritely, irreverent, and fast-moving fun fest. Just what we all need right now!
November 17, 2025
I’m not sure if I’m being too harsh in rating this book since all it is is a fun, hilarious and cute romcom with some crazy fantastical elements, and though the plot, worldbuilding, and some character development was lacking, I still enjoyed it so so much <3
After reading V&V, I noticed some similar issues the author faced with the Korinniad as well; the plot feels very detached in places, there were scenes that I felt did not fit the whole book as a whole, but once I let go of any pre-conceived notions I had about the story, those issues became more bearable. Still, there was some meta content that I found to be too much and there were some plot holes (I don’t think the main character slept for more than 2 hours during the entire book, or ate anything other than bread and cheese (twice), over the course of 2 weeks (?) at least??
The romance was VERY cute and progressed well but a random arc in the middle of the story concerning a character we did not get much background info or development from kind of broke the book’s pacing for me.
Finally the world was often not described in much detail, and I think the second act is the weakest because of this. Still, this is a short and addictive read, I loved the romance and the humour, and though sometimes the parody was too much for me, I couldn’t put the book down ;)
After reading V&V, I noticed some similar issues the author faced with the Korinniad as well; the plot feels very detached in places, there were scenes that I felt did not fit the whole book as a whole, but once I let go of any pre-conceived notions I had about the story, those issues became more bearable. Still, there was some meta content that I found to be too much and there were some plot holes (I don’t think the main character slept for more than 2 hours during the entire book, or ate anything other than bread and cheese (twice), over the course of 2 weeks (?) at least??
The romance was VERY cute and progressed well but a random arc in the middle of the story concerning a character we did not get much background info or development from kind of broke the book’s pacing for me.
Finally the world was often not described in much detail, and I think the second act is the weakest because of this. Still, this is a short and addictive read, I loved the romance and the humour, and though sometimes the parody was too much for me, I couldn’t put the book down ;)
May 5, 2020
I enjoyed this firmly tongue-in-cheek satire/fantasy romp that follows our heroine on a hunt for true love to avoid becoming the latest virgin sacrifice in her small village. A fun riff on Greek mythology, quest adventures, love and just about anything else you could imagine. Korinna is an admirable character, unwilling to sit back and accept her fate, swept up into a game of the gods, she still maintains autonomy and very much follows her own heart. Fans of Greek myth will get a big kick out of this but even if you aren't as familiar, the author does a great job of filling out the gods as characters in their own right and keeping the plot racing along at an entertaining clip. The over the top humor may not be for every reader, but I'm a big fan of lighthearted satires so it definitely brought a smile to my face. If you're looking for a laugh, a well-written fantasy, and even a heartwarming love story, check this one out!
January 26, 2023
2.75/5 ⭐️
A fun, silly, and light-hearted read.
I enjoyed this book, but it wasn't what I expected at all. I found the concept and the characters interesting, but the story overall just fell short for me.
After reading her Villians and Virtues series before this one, I guess I was expecting a more well-developed romance. While there was a teeny amount of romance in this book, it just wasn't very convincing and the buildup fell short.
There was a good sense of humor throughout the book, but this was more on the silly side.
An okay book that I feel could've been something really good, but ultimately fell short. But it's all good because I'm still very much impressed with this author!
A fun, silly, and light-hearted read.
I enjoyed this book, but it wasn't what I expected at all. I found the concept and the characters interesting, but the story overall just fell short for me.
After reading her Villians and Virtues series before this one, I guess I was expecting a more well-developed romance. While there was a teeny amount of romance in this book, it just wasn't very convincing and the buildup fell short.
There was a good sense of humor throughout the book, but this was more on the silly side.
An okay book that I feel could've been something really good, but ultimately fell short. But it's all good because I'm still very much impressed with this author!
May 30, 2025
This was cute and fun; I really enjoyed this as a quick read in between a couple heavier books. I think that it might have been a bit too transparent, and a tad (read:extremely) predictable, but it really was more of a lighthearted book so I wasn’t disappointed by any means.
Korinna was so much fun. I absolutely adored her character and all of her sass. I also love how extremely cliche and over the top all of her suitors were, not even getting started on how ridiculous the Gods were.
My only gripe is that there really were zero sparks. I really found no chemistry between our two mcs, to be honest, a lot of their interactions were down right boring.
Really though, it was a funny book. I found myself smirking and internally laughing throughout the entire thing.
Korinna was so much fun. I absolutely adored her character and all of her sass. I also love how extremely cliche and over the top all of her suitors were, not even getting started on how ridiculous the Gods were.
My only gripe is that there really were zero sparks. I really found no chemistry between our two mcs, to be honest, a lot of their interactions were down right boring.
Really though, it was a funny book. I found myself smirking and internally laughing throughout the entire thing.
February 22, 2020
I really enjoyed Korinna's character and she was just going to take her villages' choice lightly and chose instead to make her own path and to save her life. Getting the help of Cupid to find her mate was not expected, but if it would save her, why not give it a shot. This is a cute adventure and i'm looking forward to reading more by this author.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
February 17, 2020
Korinna hasn’t been blessed by a single one of the gods, and especially not by one of the Olympians, but her life is going about as well as any servant girl could expect. That is, until she’s faced with the small issue of her village’s annual virgin sacrifice and the slightly larger issue that she has just become the perfect candidate.
Let’s see what she’s made of.
Let’s see what she’s made of.
March 18, 2023
DNF around 60% and skimmed the rest. The style and story just wasn’t for me. The interjecting narrator felt disruptive instead of comedic and the characters weren’t as fleshed out or nuanced as the authors other series Villains & Virtues (which I suggest you pick up IMMEDIATELY!).
That being said there were a few chaotic, deadpan comedic moments - kinda the same chaos as something like a Midsummer’s night dream but it still didn’t hold my attention. 1.5 ⭐️
That being said there were a few chaotic, deadpan comedic moments - kinda the same chaos as something like a Midsummer’s night dream but it still didn’t hold my attention. 1.5 ⭐️
September 7, 2024
The cover made me hesitate, which is ridiculous because I have truly enjoyed everything written by A.K Caggiano. This book is no exception. It's a light fast read and such an enjoyable ride. The characters were well written, and the story was refreshingly different. I highly recommend giving it a chance.
April 15, 2023
Divinely good
The more obsessive you were about Greek mythology as a kid, the better you'll enjoy this tour de force. It's very tongue in cheek, has no respect for the fourth wall, and is a helluva fun read.
The more obsessive you were about Greek mythology as a kid, the better you'll enjoy this tour de force. It's very tongue in cheek, has no respect for the fourth wall, and is a helluva fun read.
November 10, 2023
Airport read
I'm gonna have to class this as an airport / beach read. The story is not complicated & just entertaining enough that you can enjoy it, but still make sure your kid doesn't try to eat sand.
I'm gonna have to class this as an airport / beach read. The story is not complicated & just entertaining enough that you can enjoy it, but still make sure your kid doesn't try to eat sand.
November 7, 2024
3.5 ⭐️Very cute and I have never walked away from an A.K. Caggiano book disappointed. This is begging to be a cute, silly little movie, but as a novel, it could’ve been a lot more developed (for me). And maybe it will be someday!
March 26, 2025
I have never read a book by this author I didn't love
And I still haven't. This was possibly her best comedy work in a book and I didn't realize I needed a fluffy romance with the vibe of Disney Hercules if it was PG-13.
And I still haven't. This was possibly her best comedy work in a book and I didn't realize I needed a fluffy romance with the vibe of Disney Hercules if it was PG-13.
November 21, 2025
Entertaining, different but fun
A fast read , but a little different from most of the books that you read. No real spice but very entertaining. Made me laugh out loud several times.
A fast read , but a little different from most of the books that you read. No real spice but very entertaining. Made me laugh out loud several times.
January 26, 2026
"Love will make you see the world differently. It is transformative. It will convince you to make the right decisions, the hard decisions, and they will not even feel hard at all. Love will free you."
This story was structured as a Greek epic following Korrina, a woman chosen to be her village's virgin sacrifice. She doesn't agree with that plan and sets off to find a suitor that would solve her problem and save her from being a sacrifice.
It's meant to be an epic comedy, but the humor did not land for me. There are two narrators interjecting into the story, but I'm honestly not sure what purpose they were meant to serve; they didn't move the story forward in a significant way and were more distracting than anything else.
The story doesn't take itself too seriously, and there were parts of the multi-suitor angle that I liked, but overall it left me disappointed. Not even the Moulin Rouge references could save it.
This story was structured as a Greek epic following Korrina, a woman chosen to be her village's virgin sacrifice. She doesn't agree with that plan and sets off to find a suitor that would solve her problem and save her from being a sacrifice.
It's meant to be an epic comedy, but the humor did not land for me. There are two narrators interjecting into the story, but I'm honestly not sure what purpose they were meant to serve; they didn't move the story forward in a significant way and were more distracting than anything else.
The story doesn't take itself too seriously, and there were parts of the multi-suitor angle that I liked, but overall it left me disappointed. Not even the Moulin Rouge references could save it.
April 30, 2020
That was great
What a fun book to read. Loved all the Greek mythology. Loved all the characters. Loved the twists and turns.
What a fun book to read. Loved all the Greek mythology. Loved all the characters. Loved the twists and turns.
February 13, 2021
Fun story in Ancient Greece
The story of Korinna was a fun, god-filled romp through Ancient Greece. I recommend it as a light-hearted read for anyone who likes mythology.
The story of Korinna was a fun, god-filled romp through Ancient Greece. I recommend it as a light-hearted read for anyone who likes mythology.
February 18, 2023
Brilliant humour and characters (the romance unfortunately wasn't) and I enjoyed reading this little gem
June 4, 2024
Witty, fun read.
June 13, 2024
Refreshingly different
This was definitely an interesting read. The characters are not what I expected, and I was very pleased with that. It’s a fun read, and a great story.
This was definitely an interesting read. The characters are not what I expected, and I was very pleased with that. It’s a fun read, and a great story.
August 20, 2024
This one was... fine.
Cute, a little goofy, a bit too flip for me.
Not a bad read, just not my cup of tea.
Cute, a little goofy, a bit too flip for me.
Not a bad read, just not my cup of tea.
January 22, 2025
I couldn't get into it. DNF at 4%. I was not getting into the humor.
March 13, 2025
well worth the read
This book is funny, cute, and sweet. I don’t leave reviews very often, but this story was worth it and was definitely time well spent.
This book is funny, cute, and sweet. I don’t leave reviews very often, but this story was worth it and was definitely time well spent.
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