Hades and Persephone

by Melody Rose

[stefu1]

I really wanted to love this book but I just couldn’t get into it. It really only got interesting toward the end and even then it was a chapter or two.

Hades
Hades was shy? And embarrassed? Not an interpretation that I think holds true to the character so it was hard to get into the book. He seems like a nervous high school boy, (more like Peeta from the hunger games) than the powerful god he should be.

Persephone
She was a little boring. Very damsel in distress “throw myself on my bed and wept” kind of gal. Her decisions make little to no sense except for the last 4 ish chapters of the book when she magically becomes a badass. I don’t think she had enough development as a character to go from point a to b. It was very much a deus ex machina ending.

I also didn’t like the added perspectives from different characters that ended up just repeating the previous scene from their POV. It made me feel like the author thought I was too dumb to figure things out. That was the other thing. All the “surprises” were pretty easy to figure out, so the repeat scenes were unnecessary. If anything, it took away from the mystery elements of the book.

The last thing is super small but still made me a little creeped out. I didn’t appreciate the link between Persephone and Zeus (being daughter and father) because it made everything feel awkward. I know that Greek gods don’t work like people but I couldn’t help but think “ew isn’t that your uncle? Nasty”. If you feel this way, it gets worse at the end of the book.

All in all, pretty sad that I didn’t like it. I’ve gotten a couple of duds in the Persephone/Hades books so I’ll probably take a break from them.