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For Olympus' Sake
For Olympus' Sake Shayla Kersten Stephen Liatos' career as an archaeologist hit a brick wall a long time ago. His love life crashed and burned right behind it. When a young intern claims to have the key to the elusive artifact known as Aphrodite's necklace, Stephen's life takes a strange turn. Suddenly, he's in the middle of the hottest wet dream he's ever had. Until all hell breaks loose. Literally. Alex's mission was to retrieve his mistress's necklace. He didn't need a passenger along for the ride, although Stephen's overactive libido makes for an interesting trip. Nor did he expect to end up in Hades instead of Olympus. Now he has to get the necklace and Stephen out of the Underworld before they both become permanent residents.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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Shayla Kersten
28 books222 followersBy day, multi-published Shayla Kersten is a mild-mannered accountant. By night, she’s a writer of sexy romances. Torn between genres, Shayla writes erotic stories about hot heroes and their sexy women, as well as hot men and their passionate heroes.
A native of Arkansas, Shayla spent four years in the Army as a missile specialist, stationed in Germany and Oklahoma. After her enlistment was up, she spent eleven years in New York City taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Even her love of theatre and the nightlife of the big city couldn’t cure terminal homesickness for the Natural State. In 1995, she returned to her roots in Arkansas.
Shayla divides her time between her mother, her spoiled rotten cats and dogs, her evil day job and her obsession—writing.
A native of Arkansas, Shayla spent four years in the Army as a missile specialist, stationed in Germany and Oklahoma. After her enlistment was up, she spent eleven years in New York City taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Even her love of theatre and the nightlife of the big city couldn’t cure terminal homesickness for the Natural State. In 1995, she returned to her roots in Arkansas.
Shayla divides her time between her mother, her spoiled rotten cats and dogs, her evil day job and her obsession—writing.
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June 20, 2010
good story but not unforgettable.
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January 1, 2010As often when dealing with the gods of Olympus, this story is not a romance but more an erotic escapades, like most of the myths where it seems that all actions and resolutions are driven by sex.
The story starts quite abruptly, Stephen is an archaeologist whose reputation was destroyed from the useless research of an artefact, the Aphrodite’s necklace. When Alex, one of his assistant, comes to his room claiming to have found the necklace, Stephen has nothing to loose to follow him to the ancient Minoan ruins. From that moment on, all worlds, up and under, break loose, and Stephen is not more in command of his mind and body.
When Stephen and Alex were in the “ordinary” world, I had the feeling that Stephen was the upper hand in their relationship; maybe since Alex was his assistant, maybe since I had the feeling that Alex was younger than Stephen. But when they are dragged in the underworld, Stephen immediately loses any appearance of independence, to become almost a sex toy. Everyone seems to want to use him for sex, various mythological figures enter the scene, and everyone wants a piece of Stephen.
In all of this Alex plays the role of supervisor, he is a bit jealous of Stephen, but not since he doesn’t want other men to have sex with him, but only since he wants to be there to direct the scene. If Stephen is willing, and ready, Alex has nothing against the idea to “borrow” him, even sometime to participate. Sex is the main event in this story, and the normal sexual boundaries of modern time are not applicable here. There is no knowledge of exclusivity or betrayal, at least not with a sexual meaning. There is neither actually a concept of straight, gay or even bisexual, sex is sex, in every possible pairs, or with as many partners at once.
There is even a plot, a mission to accomplish, but it’s not the most important event in the story. So no, if you want to read a romance, a love story, this is not your book. But if you want to read about mischievous gods or semi-gods and playful humans more than willing to amuse them, in this story Stephen finds out a side of himself, that he was not aware of, that being a sex toy could be at the same time dangerous and satisfying.
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The story starts quite abruptly, Stephen is an archaeologist whose reputation was destroyed from the useless research of an artefact, the Aphrodite’s necklace. When Alex, one of his assistant, comes to his room claiming to have found the necklace, Stephen has nothing to loose to follow him to the ancient Minoan ruins. From that moment on, all worlds, up and under, break loose, and Stephen is not more in command of his mind and body.
When Stephen and Alex were in the “ordinary” world, I had the feeling that Stephen was the upper hand in their relationship; maybe since Alex was his assistant, maybe since I had the feeling that Alex was younger than Stephen. But when they are dragged in the underworld, Stephen immediately loses any appearance of independence, to become almost a sex toy. Everyone seems to want to use him for sex, various mythological figures enter the scene, and everyone wants a piece of Stephen.
In all of this Alex plays the role of supervisor, he is a bit jealous of Stephen, but not since he doesn’t want other men to have sex with him, but only since he wants to be there to direct the scene. If Stephen is willing, and ready, Alex has nothing against the idea to “borrow” him, even sometime to participate. Sex is the main event in this story, and the normal sexual boundaries of modern time are not applicable here. There is no knowledge of exclusivity or betrayal, at least not with a sexual meaning. There is neither actually a concept of straight, gay or even bisexual, sex is sex, in every possible pairs, or with as many partners at once.
There is even a plot, a mission to accomplish, but it’s not the most important event in the story. So no, if you want to read a romance, a love story, this is not your book. But if you want to read about mischievous gods or semi-gods and playful humans more than willing to amuse them, in this story Stephen finds out a side of himself, that he was not aware of, that being a sex toy could be at the same time dangerous and satisfying.
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/89...
November 14, 2018
Stephen Liatos’s career is at a stand-still. Practically exiled to an already excavated ruin, his dreams have long-since given way to cynicism. At least until his gorgeous new intern, Alex, claims he knows the site of the mythical Aphrodite’s necklace. But their discovery of the necklace changes Stephen’s life in ways he never expected when he suddenly finds himself in the realm of Hades.
Alex might have desired Stephen, but his priority is his mission to retrieve Aphrodite’s necklace and return it to the goddess. His assignment takes an unforeseen turn when he accidentally brings Stephen back to the gods’ ancient realm with him. What’s more, Alex didn’t make it to Olympus, as expected. Alex has to get both Stephen and the necklace out of Hades, but to reach safety the two men have to make it past the dangerous, lustful residents of the Underworld.
I always look forward to a new book by Shayla Kersten, so it was somewhat of a disappointment that I didn’t love For Olympus’ Sake. The backdrop Greek mythology was exciting and both heroes were enticing, so the basic elements of the story worked in its favor. Yet, Ms. Kersten seems to have not capitalized on the fantastic ingredients of her book. Instead, For Olympus’ Sake was bogged down with endless, free-for-all sexual encounters, the majority of them not between the heroes. It was a case of too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak, which didn’t work for me. Perhaps if it had been balanced by more alone-time between Alex and Stephen I would not have minded so much. I yearned to see more relationship build-up between the heroes because the love between them seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, I felt like the romance aspect was short-changed, which was a pity because Ms. Kersten normally writes enchanting love stories.
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Alex might have desired Stephen, but his priority is his mission to retrieve Aphrodite’s necklace and return it to the goddess. His assignment takes an unforeseen turn when he accidentally brings Stephen back to the gods’ ancient realm with him. What’s more, Alex didn’t make it to Olympus, as expected. Alex has to get both Stephen and the necklace out of Hades, but to reach safety the two men have to make it past the dangerous, lustful residents of the Underworld.
I always look forward to a new book by Shayla Kersten, so it was somewhat of a disappointment that I didn’t love For Olympus’ Sake. The backdrop Greek mythology was exciting and both heroes were enticing, so the basic elements of the story worked in its favor. Yet, Ms. Kersten seems to have not capitalized on the fantastic ingredients of her book. Instead, For Olympus’ Sake was bogged down with endless, free-for-all sexual encounters, the majority of them not between the heroes. It was a case of too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak, which didn’t work for me. Perhaps if it had been balanced by more alone-time between Alex and Stephen I would not have minded so much. I yearned to see more relationship build-up between the heroes because the love between them seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, I felt like the romance aspect was short-changed, which was a pity because Ms. Kersten normally writes enchanting love stories.
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed.
May 16, 2011
A lot of sexin' going on. Multiple partners but there's still the prospect of an HEA at the end which I liked. They started the relationship during the book so seeing them work toward the HEA was nice.
August 31, 2010
A naughty romp through the underworld.
January 3, 2019
2.5 stars
July 4, 2012
If your looking for lots of sex, this has it. If your looking for romance it doesn't. I don't feel the relationship between the two main characters at all.
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