by Scarlett St. Clair
Publisher: Bloom Books
Pub Date: May 23, 2019
Genre: New Adult, Romance, Retelling
Format: Print
Source: Bought
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Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth
is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After
moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a
mortal journalist.
Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling
empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible.
After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone
finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are
impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom
forever.
The bet does more than expose Persephone’s
failure as a goddess, however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her
freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows—and it’s forbidden.
My
Review: Well I got to say that I'm a bit disappointed in this book. There
has been so much hype around this book and I love a good retelling, but this
book was not all it was hyped to be.
Persephone
is free in a way. Living among everyone else, going to school, making friends,
getting her dream career, etc. It all seems to be pretty normal, though she
does dwell at times about her not having her own powers and having to rely on
her mothers magic to hide her features and so on. Though, I have to say that I
HATE her mother in this book. She is way too narcissist and I can't stand that
in a character.
Then you
have Hades. The God of the Dead that no one really knows much of. He owns a
nightclub that is exclusive. He's know to place bets with people who play a
game with him. Usually something impossible for the other person to do and then
Hades owns them. It seems mean but as you read more into the book, you'll understand
the reason he does what he does.
So far
up to this point, it's been just MEH.
Once we
get past the half way point and Persephone and Hades start to interact more
that finally the steam/smutt part of the book starts to come about. Now is it
the best? Not really, there are some parts that were worth the long wait and
some just felt thrown in.
It did
take until the very end of the book for me to decide if I liked it enough to
continue this series. The ending is the momentum I would have loved to see throughout
the entire book. Just because of that I'm willing to give the next book a try.
