The Iron Queen

by Kaitlin Bevis

• ISBN10: 1611946360
• ISBN13: 9781611946369
• Publish Date: 26 June 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Imajinn Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[stefu1]

The gangs all back! And more annoying than ever! Join as Persephone for the first time looses hope, Hades gets weak, Aphrodite gets (amazingly) even more annoying, and you want to slap Melissa every time she opens her mouth Shut up about how you feel left out and how you have sooooo many problems jeeez . Get ready for more creepy moment, more sad moments and one moment where you just kinda go "what in tarnation did I just read?" At the end of the book, you will just say "hmm I guess the book was alright. Probably won't read again, nor will I continue the series. But Hades was still the best.

[Silvara]

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This one starts right where book #2 left off. And contains lots of changing view points. Each chapter is told from someone else's POV. We get Persephone and Hades of course, but also Aphrodite. Which was great because it gave me a better chance to connect with Aphrodite. I actually liked her in this book, whereas last book I thought she was evil and working for Zeus on purpose.

Melissa was still a whiny brat, thinking only of how she was inconvenienced by things and not how bad she was hurting Persephone. We get to meet a lot of the other Gods and Goddesses as well. I loved Ares, he was pretty close to perfect. (Is this where I confess I've always loved Ares in mythology?) We also get to meet Hephaestus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis... Poseidon is in this book again. And Zeus of course. So many characters!

I will warn you, while there are not graphic depictions, torture plays a key role in this book. Physical as well as emotional. And it is described, just not in super detail. So if that bothers you, I would skip this one.

Persephone grows a lot in this book. She's come a long way from the 'typical teenager' she was in the first book. She's still naive in some ways, but they're getting fewer and far between. She channels her inner strength to do things she never would have been able to do before. And as always, it's done in a believable way.

I really loved reading this trilogy, and I'm hoping that at some point in the future there will be another book. I want to see what happens to Persephone and Hades. I want to know what Aphrodite will do now. And I'm curious to see if Melissa ever grows up and starts being the best friend she's claimed to be.

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