READERS AT THE GATE (THE OG) SCI-FI/FANTASY BOOK CLUB AT DUNGEON'S GATE!

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READERS AT THE GATE (THE OG) SCI-FI\/FANTASY BOOK CLUB AT DUNGEON'S GATE!
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Join us at Dungeon's Gate every 3rd Thursday of the month for our Readers at The Gate {The OG} Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club, where we discuss our Science Fiction/Fantasy Read of the Month!
Our August Read is: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell.
You can grab a copy of the book at Dungeon's Gate (it's always 20% off the current Book Club pick)! Our OG Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club meets on the third Thursday of the month at 7:00 PM. At Book Club we discuss the current read and vote on the read for the next month. We'd love for you to join us!
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What's this book about?
"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. Wearing the Lion establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantasy landscape." —T. Kingfisher, Hugo Award-winning author of Nettle & Bone
"Wiswell makes something new and thrilling—and funny and wrenching and tender—out of a very old myth." —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Book of Love
Nebula Award-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell brings a humanizing and humorous touch to the Hercules story, forever changing the way we understand the man behind the myth—and the goddess reluctantly bound to him
Sometimes a goddess's worst enemy is her biggest fan.
Heracles, hero of Greece, dedicates all his feats to the goddess Hera. If only he knew that his very face is an insult to her...as he is yet another child that Hera’s dipshit husband, Zeus, had out of wedlock.
“Auntie Hera” loathes every minute of Heracles’ devotion, until she snaps and causes an unspeakably tragic accident: the death of Heracles' children. Plunged into grief and desperate for revenge, Heracles is determined to find the god that did this.
Wracked with guilt and desperate to save face, Hera distracts Heracles with monster-slaying quests, only to find that he is too traumatized to enact more violence. Instead, Heracles cares for the Nemean lion, bonds with the Lernaean hydra, and heeds the Ceryneian hind.
Each challenge adds a new monster to Heracles' newfound family. A family that just might lay siege to Mount Olympos.
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