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carladionisio's review
4.0
Crítica em português no blog Pepita Mágica
I received a digital arc from the author in exchange for an honest review.
As I already said in my reviews of the previous books of The Chrysomelia Stories, I love mythology, especially Greek Mythology. For that reason, I’ve been always curious about Molly Ringle’s books, and when she gave me the opportunity to read them I jumped in without a second thought.
Immortal’s Spring was sent to me a while ago, even before its publishing, but my life went crazy, and all my free time was reduced to nothing. Therefore, this book suffered because of it. I wanted to read it before it was published, but it was impossible.
This is the third book of this trilogy, and we keep following Persephone and Hades’ story aka Sophie and Andrian’s story, but, as happened in the previous book, they are not the main characters, even though they still have importance to what it’s happening.
Here we follow closely Hakate aka Zoe, who we already know from the previous book as Persephone and Hades’ daughter. In Underworld’s Daughter, Hekate was in a love triangle between Dionysus and Hermes; it still happens, but it takes a different path in this book – and thank the gods, it took the way I wanted! I still like Zoe/Hekate as much I liked her in the previous book, her and Niko/Hermes are my favourite characters, in the three books.
I don’t want to get into the plot more deeply, because I want you to follow it by reading it – WHICH I TOTALLY RECOMMEND! But I can say that in this book we have the perfect continuity to its predecessor, and ended the way it should. As the previous books, it’s well written, and has an interesting story, but as Underworld’s Daughter, Immortal’s Spring as almost nothing to do with the myths as we know them. Well, they are there, in its core, as we can still identify them, but then goes completely the opposite, becoming something independent. I was curious about how Ringle was going to link Hekate to the triple Goddess. I didn’t see it in this book, even though, there are some little details.
To conclude, I like this trilogy a lot, and this book in particular I recommend them, although I feel the need for warning you to stop thinking about Greek Mythology halfway the first book, because they are NOT retelling (well, the first one almost can be considered one); and don’t be expecting an extraordinary book which will blow your mind off, because it won’t. Read them and enjoy them, because, besides everything, they’re really good books and they’re well-written. We can see the research the author did for these books; although, she got further from the Mythology, it’s still there, in the details.
I received a digital arc from the author in exchange for an honest review.
As I already said in my reviews of the previous books of The Chrysomelia Stories, I love mythology, especially Greek Mythology. For that reason, I’ve been always curious about Molly Ringle’s books, and when she gave me the opportunity to read them I jumped in without a second thought.
Immortal’s Spring was sent to me a while ago, even before its publishing, but my life went crazy, and all my free time was reduced to nothing. Therefore, this book suffered because of it. I wanted to read it before it was published, but it was impossible.
This is the third book of this trilogy, and we keep following Persephone and Hades’ story aka Sophie and Andrian’s story, but, as happened in the previous book, they are not the main characters, even though they still have importance to what it’s happening.
Here we follow closely Hakate aka Zoe, who we already know from the previous book as Persephone and Hades’ daughter. In Underworld’s Daughter, Hekate was in a love triangle between Dionysus and Hermes; it still happens, but it takes a different path in this book – and thank the gods, it took the way I wanted! I still like Zoe/Hekate as much I liked her in the previous book, her and Niko/Hermes are my favourite characters, in the three books.
I don’t want to get into the plot more deeply, because I want you to follow it by reading it – WHICH I TOTALLY RECOMMEND! But I can say that in this book we have the perfect continuity to its predecessor, and ended the way it should. As the previous books, it’s well written, and has an interesting story, but as Underworld’s Daughter, Immortal’s Spring as almost nothing to do with the myths as we know them. Well, they are there, in its core, as we can still identify them, but then goes completely the opposite, becoming something independent. I was curious about how Ringle was going to link Hekate to the triple Goddess. I didn’t see it in this book, even though, there are some little details.
To conclude, I like this trilogy a lot, and this book in particular I recommend them, although I feel the need for warning you to stop thinking about Greek Mythology halfway the first book, because they are NOT retelling (well, the first one almost can be considered one); and don’t be expecting an extraordinary book which will blow your mind off, because it won’t. Read them and enjoy them, because, besides everything, they’re really good books and they’re well-written. We can see the research the author did for these books; although, she got further from the Mythology, it’s still there, in the details.
elvenavari's review
3.0
3.5 stars. I was hoping that my dislike for Adrian & Sophie's story in the last book would ease with this one...but it didn't. I think the majority of this was because of Sophie's grief. Perhaps I found it so close to my own from losing my mother five years ago or it just seemed to linger too long, I'm not sure. But I still found a great disinterest for the modern day part of the story. I loved the parts that were set in ancient times. I also felt the ending with Thantos was a bit rushed.
mollyringle's review
[Content warnings for the book: grief, death, some instances of violence, one instance of natural disaster.]
Read Persephone's Orchard and Underworld's Daughter first! This is the third book and they are indeed sequential. For those who liked Hermes (or Niko) in the first two, you may be pleased to know he's got more page time in this one.
I also wrote a guest post about him here, for [a:Kaitlin Bevis|6150699|Kaitlin Bevis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1465665370p2/6150699.jpg]'s blog.
Enjoy!
Read Persephone's Orchard and Underworld's Daughter first! This is the third book and they are indeed sequential. For those who liked Hermes (or Niko) in the first two, you may be pleased to know he's got more page time in this one.
I also wrote a guest post about him here, for [a:Kaitlin Bevis|6150699|Kaitlin Bevis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1465665370p2/6150699.jpg]'s blog.
Enjoy!
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