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Captive in the Underworld
by Lianyu Tan
Captive In The Underworld is a dark Hades/Persephone retelling, with Hades being a woman. This book came reccomended to be on tiktok.
I love the Hades and Persephone myth, and their love. Persephone being the goddess of spring and the underworld?! Iconic. I have read several rerellings - a Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair, Neon Gods by Katee Robert's and now this one. I was interested because this was a Dark Romance version of this story, and I haven't been able to get into Dark romances.
I... still don't like Dark Romances. This had a happy ending, but I struggled to get through the dark scenes. The author was talented, and the scenes were enticeing.. but I couldn't get over my original feelings for the subject matter.
In this book Hades is caring, but she goes about it in a very disgusting way. She eventually finds her place and is able to make the right decisions, but not until after Persephone has suffered. Demeter in most retellings is an over protective, bad dmom. In this retelling she is completly unhinged.
The writing of this book was excellent. I felt such strong emotions during this book, from disgust to frustration, to helplessness. It was a Rollercoaster of emotion.
I would never rate a book badly because I didn't enjoy the subject matter. Just because it's not for me doesn't mean it's a bad book, hence the 5 stars on good reads.
Please check out trigger warnings ⚠️
I love the Hades and Persephone myth, and their love. Persephone being the goddess of spring and the underworld?! Iconic. I have read several rerellings - a Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair, Neon Gods by Katee Robert's and now this one. I was interested because this was a Dark Romance version of this story, and I haven't been able to get into Dark romances.
I... still don't like Dark Romances. This had a happy ending, but I struggled to get through the dark scenes. The author was talented, and the scenes were enticeing.. but I couldn't get over my original feelings for the subject matter.
In this book Hades is caring, but she goes about it in a very disgusting way. She eventually finds her place and is able to make the right decisions, but not until after Persephone has suffered. Demeter in most retellings is an over protective, bad dmom. In this retelling she is completly unhinged.
The writing of this book was excellent. I felt such strong emotions during this book, from disgust to frustration, to helplessness. It was a Rollercoaster of emotion.
I would never rate a book badly because I didn't enjoy the subject matter. Just because it's not for me doesn't mean it's a bad book, hence the 5 stars on good reads.
Please check out trigger warnings ⚠️