So Hades has this reputation of being a notoriously wicked god because he allegedly forces mortals into entering impossible contacts where they must give up their vices or lose their souls. I kinda felt like I was watching a choose your own adventure interactive story with someone picking all the worst possible moves. Like in the beginning when she just kept going to the Hades’ club for seemingly no reason at all? Or when she was forced by the contract to produce life in the underworld and thought she could just bring some gardening tools and some dollar store seeds and that would just work? She holds the pretense of being upset at first but really she just doesn’t do anything about it. It’s weird cause she’s sorta being portrayed as some strong willed independent woman but her actions say the complete opposite, everyone in the book basically just pushes her around and forces her into unfavourable situations and she just goes along with it. She had zero reason and just DID NOT THINK. Persephone is mind-blowingly ignorant and clueless and I just couldn’t understand any of her actions or decisions she made. I feel like the problem is that it lures you in with the premise of an unique and creative modern day retelling of Persephone and Hades (which sounds amazing btw if there actually is a good version of this please let me know) but it really just is a cliche billionaire romance with Greek god characters.Įverything that I deeply deeply disliked:

I’m very sad to say I’m pretty disappointed with this book.

Persephone a touch of darkness