pickPersephone, daughter of Demeter, strikes a deal with Hades in his nightclub while disguised as a mortal college student. Persephone has six months to figure out how to create life in the underworld. She‘ll come to find a life worth living while doing so. Meanwhile, hades has another deal with aphrodite in the works that may impact this one. Steamy and sinful, yet focusing on the overall underlying good in humanity, this is romantsy at its best!
Picking this book for the #readingbracket2025 was not a hard decision. It was a wonderful book and by far my favorite this month! Now, the hard part is going to be which book wins the bracket. Probably The House of Hades, but I‘m posting this at 1:30am and don‘t want to choose right now.
pick„Sing Muse, he said. Now do you hear me? I sang“ ~ Muse of epic poetry
Haynes spoke through Calliope and gave a voice to the broken women of Troy. It was nice to read the voice of the women in this war, I can only recommend it.
#mythology #greek #haynes #emotional
pickFinished this up on my lunch. I enjoyed this installment a lot. Lots of twists and turns (haha labyrinth - get it). I‘m ready for the next one
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pickI loved this book so much! It had wonderful character development and great plot. It was also pretty funny. I love Apollo, he‘s such a dork!
“Britomartis was wrong. I didn‘t fear water. I simply couldn‘t look at the surface of any pool without imagining Commodus‘s face, stung with betrayal, staring up at me.” “I was interfering in mortal affairs— not just to save lives, or to save Rome, but because I could not stand to see my beautiful Commodus die by anyone else‘s hands.” When I tell you these two lines BROKE ME- OMG, this scene was so good but SO SAD at the same time! AAAAAAAA!!!
pickI remember first reading the scene with Clytemnestra in the Iliad and thinking WTAF!! 🤬 (i wont say why because spoilers) I couldnt believe that the narrative continued on barely acknowledging the abuse (imo) - so i was always going to read this book. It‘s engaging and propulsive but dark and violent too. Women in the myths were horribly mistreated and misrepresented - I‘m glad to see a retelling that puts Clytemnestra‘s experience first.
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