She tells him he should send struggling mortals to rehab? He does so, and she accuses him of doing it to \”make fun of\” her. Her motivations are all over the place: does she want adventure, a life outside her mother\’s grasp? Does she want passion and/or love (two things that are alternately conflated and differentiated, as the situation dictates)? Does she want to trust Hades and challenge her preconceived notions of him? Or does she want those notions confirmed, despite his words and actions? She seems ready to believe the worst of Hades at all times, no matter what he does. Persephone barely functions as a protagonist, let alone a heroine. The only way to properly address my feelings about this book is to organize things in a list, so here we go: 1. A modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth? Great! Then I started the audiobook and it all went downhill from there. I was excited to read \”A Touch of Darkness\” based on the synopsis I was given.
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