They had tremendous chemistry, and let me tell you, absolute burn it all down sexiness together. Persephone is like a ray of sensual sunshine breaking through Hades’s walls and getting to the heart of him. He’s supposed to be this hard-core alpha, but he was actually an amazingly sexy cinnamon roll. He carries her when her feet are injured from her mad dash to escape the city, he worries if she isn’t eating enough, he makes sure she has what she needs both physically and emotionally and I loved it. To be honest, I was not expecting Hades to be such a wonderful caretaker, and almost right from the start. She will be ruined and he will get his revenge. They strike a deal, he will protect her for the next three months until she comes into her trust fund, and she will stay with him as his very public lover. Hades rescues Persephone, but he also sees a way to finally get back at Zeus for the murder of his parents. So she runs and ends up in the lower city. Only Zeus’s last several wives died mysterious deaths and Persephone is filled with dread at the thought of a marriage to him. The thirteen are the ruling power of Olympus. Persephone would effectively become the new Hera and a member of the thirteen. As the newly minted Demeter, she wants to keep climbing the power ladder, and one way to get there is a marriage between Persephone and Zeus.

Persephone, and her sisters, are pawns to their mother’s ambitions. So maybe, erotic contemporary fantasy? Anyway, IT DOESN’T MATTER. And each of their positions is inherited like royalty. They don’t have any special powers, other than sex appeal I guess.

Definitely a retelling, and it IS a sort of fantasy since we are talking about Zeus, Hades, Demeter, Persephone, etc…, but these characters seem more like high flying billionaire politicians than gods.

I’m not sure what sub-genre to classify this book as. Contemporary Fantasy/Mythology RetellingsĪfter seeing Katee Robert talk about this new series on Twitter I will admit to being intrigued and as I’m always up for any kind of mythology retelling I immediately added it to be TBR list.

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