Hades is just such a lovable character. Persephone was a bit aggravating in the beginning but I grew to tolerate her character. Not too many characters which made it easy to follow. I also do love how the villain became a cute plant at the end.
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Would’ve been 5/5 but my aggravation for Persephone’s swj traits gave me the ick, but I will say the author did a very nice mirror to the Greek mythology version in the odyssey of Persephone. It just gave me the ick that she assumed the worst in Hades despite his actions and assumed he was incapable of love. I guess I have to agree on Minthe’s jealousy and protectiveness of Hades but I’m glad she turned into a plant. I guess it’s also not all Persephone’s fault due to her sheltered upbringing regarding her opinion on Hades.
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Favorite Quotes Below
1. "Let me show you what it is to hold power in your hands," he said. "Let me coax the darkness from you-I will help you shape it."
2. "Your paths," Sybil said. "You and Hades-it was
destiny, woven by the Fates.” (Alexa, play Invisible String by Taylor Swift)
3. "Action, Lady Persephone. Action holds weight for me.”
4. "I don't think I could handle your regret."
5. “Respect could build an empire. Trust could make it unbreakable. Love could make it last forever.”32:T60f,I’m going to round up because this is an indie book and I don’t like lowering the avg. ratings and diminishing its reader potential, but I’d give this about 2.5 stars... maybe 2 stars. I’m trying to think about what I liked about this book, and I’m kind of blanking. It’s very rare for me to not like the mc who’s narrating the book, but Persephone really
managed to annoy me. She was jumping to anger towards Hades for one thing or another, and I feel like she lacked in communication. For whatever reasons, she chose not to tell people close to her things that were going on in her life, or express how she was feeling. Partially because of that, I feel like she was kind o

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