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Hades by Alexandra Adornetto

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dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Another Adornetto book down the hatch, okay improvements first. Hades is MUCH better paced than Halo, halo was slow and dragged on far to long but Hades' plot gets moving much quicker and stays interesting and well paced. I also liked the way certain characters were used here in opposition to the first book. Molly became much more relevant and her thoughts and opinions got a surprising amount of time. I liked seeing the less composed more angry and half hazard versions of Ivy and Gabriel and I thought Xavier taking a backseat was actually kinda nice. Okay now for the bad, notice how I haven't mentioned Beth yet? 
   Bethany is untimely unchanged from the first book, even though she goes through a lot of tragedy and horrid things she always ends up back at square one: Being a useless damsel in distress with all bark, no bite and a surprising amount of judgement. Through out her time in Hell Beth keeps coming to honestly smart conclusions, but when shit hits the fan she retreats back into herself only to do it all over again. the only reason her constant stupidity  isn't as annoying is because its expected at this point. Also, in terms of ending, I wasn't a fan, the actual rescue from Hell is over very quickly for being 400 pgs in the making and the epilogue IS SO DUMB?? We don't get any recovery talk from her time in hell, or a reunion between Beth and molly, nope just GRADUATION DAY! Her and Xavier end up skipping graduation so that he can PROPOSE!? They have been dating for max 2 years and just went through a lot of trauma, and Beth seems to know Xavier is doing this is a trauma response but just doesn't stop him?? Then the book ends on a cliffhanger and god dammit there's still one more book left. 
  Anyway, yeah 3 stars, better than Halo but I wouldn't tell you to read it lol
CONTENT WARNING DESCRIPTION 
 
( I added a content warning but I feel it needs a little more description. I put a moderate warning for sexual assualt, I would put It more like 'intended rape'. Jake forces Bethany to agree to have sex with him, she ends up getting stripped to underwear and he intends to go further but is interrupted. TBH its disturbing but not too graphic but i figured I should be a bit more detailed.) 
 
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