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My Review:Title: Persephone: The Persephone Trilogy, Book 1 (The Daughters of Zeus)
Author: Kaitlin Bevis
Series: Daughters of Zeus #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 196
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge, CC's Science Fiction vs Fantasy Bingo 2018
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My rating:
Blurb:Daughters of Zeus, Book One
One day Persephone is an ordinary high school senior working at her mom’s flower shop in Athens, Georgia. The next she’s fighting off Boreas, the brutal god of Winter, and learning that she’s a bonafide goddess—a rare daughter of the now-dead Zeus. Her goddess mom whisks her off to the Underworld to hide until Spring.
There she finds herself under the protection of handsome Hades, the god of the dead, and she’s automatically married to him. It’s the only way he can keep her safe. Older, wiser, and far more powerful than she, Hades isn’t interested in becoming her lover, at least not anytime soon. But every time he rescues her from another of Zeus’s schemes, they fall in love a little more. Will Hades ever admit his feelings for her?
Can she escape the grasp of her powerful dad’s minions? The Underworld is a very cool place, but is it worth giving up her life in the realm of the living? Her goddess powers are developing some serious, kick-butt potential. She’s going to fight back.
Favorite Quotes:
I wasn’t sure I could handle this. I’d followed in the footsteps of the dead, befriended a prophet, been attacked by a snowstorm, married the King of the Underworld, found out I was a goddess, and stabbed a guy with a pen all in one afternoon. I was terrified of what tomorrow might bring.
At my disbelieving look he sighed again. I thought about offering him an inhaler, but he continued.
This book was quite entertaining. I do love a good Mythology tale and Persephone is one of my favorites. The cover is appealing and I loved how modern all the Gods and Goddess’ were. Their powers were interpreted in an interesting way to make them more palatable for modern times. It was fun to try and guess which god was who by their occupation.
I dug Persephone, for one I enjoyed the fact that she wasn’t frozen with indecision. She kind of rolled with the punches and actively searched for the solutions to the problems that she was facing. I especially like how she didn’t let the people in power surrounding her affect the way that she reacted to them; basically she didn’t take their shit. She was snarky, independent and showed a pretty good level of intelligence for someone her age.
I gotta say I had a hard time with the attraction that was shared between Hades and Persephone. The fact that Hades was so much older than her, plus being a God and her being barely 16 just wasn’t believable to me. Honestly, it felt a little dirty because for someone who had that level of power, experience and wisdom; to be attracted to someone so young just didn’t feel authentic. And I know I’m supposed to suspend my belief because it’s a book of fiction but I just wasn’t able to.
I did love Hades’ sense of humor. He was pretty funny and not at all what you expect the ‘evil’ one to be like. He was caring, even jovial at times but he definitely made his anger known when warranted, which was a bit sexy TBH.
There were a lot of side characters and ‘cameos’ of other mythology characters that were clear hints to future stories. They were all well rounded and kept my interest throughout. The plot was pretty fantastic. The whole gods can’t lie thing was a nice twist in the story, but tha’ts all I can say about it. You’ll just have to read it to find out. 😉
I’m gonna count this towards my #SFvFBingo. It will fill the Undead space. 🙂
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