They literally went from disliking each other to being “in love” in the span of a few short paragraphs and it threw me off. The beginning of the book was really strong but over time it became predictable and certain aspects moved so fast that it disconnected me from the characters and plot.

However, this particular retelling fell a little flat for me.ĭon’t get me wrong I enjoyed the story as a whole but it didn’t wow me. I’m a huge fan of books that deal with Greek Mythology and an even bigger fan of books that are Persephone and Hades retellings. “The ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t know why the season changed, so they came up with this myth to explain it.” Will Hades ever admit his feelings for her? Can she escape the grasp of her powerful dad’s minions? The Underworld is a very cool place, but is it worth giving up her life in the realm of the living? Her goddess powers are developing some serious, kick-butt potential. But every time he rescues her from another of Zeus’s schemes, they fall in love a little more. Older, wiser, and far more powerful than she, Hades isn’t interested in becoming her lover, at least not anytime soon. There she finds herself under the protection of handsome Hades, the god of the dead, and she’s automatically married to him.

Her goddess mom whisks her off to the Underworld to hide until Spring. The next she’s fighting off Boreas, the brutal god of Winter, and learning that she’s a bonafide goddess-a rare daughter of the now-dead Zeus. “One day Persephone is an ordinary high school junior working at her mom’s flower shop in Athens, Georgia.

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