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A review by sapphisms
Hot as Hades by Alisha Rai
2.0
content warnings: incest
it was a kind of rushed story. i haven't read many books that used greek mythology as a backdrop but the attempt to make the original incestuous nature of persephone and hades (as he's her uncle in the most popular/common-translated versions of the myth, though it's disputable if persephone's relation only came from her being conflated with several other goddesses early-on) made it pretty uncomfortable when the two characters started hooking up. there's a big show of how she's not technically his niece, only through adoption, so it's okay, which was really skeevy to me. i didn't really enjoy the writing style, and found it to be more of an easy-read, but the minus-two stars is really just from the way the incestuous relation was re-imagined into a still incestuous relation to make it 'okay', but just more distant ().
really glad the reimagining didn't include any rape, though that's a fairly low bar to set.
it was a kind of rushed story. i haven't read many books that used greek mythology as a backdrop but the attempt to make the original incestuous nature of persephone and hades (as he's her uncle in the most popular/common-translated versions of the myth, though it's disputable if persephone's relation only came from her being conflated with several other goddesses early-on) made it pretty uncomfortable when the two characters started hooking up. there's a big show of how she's not technically his niece, only through adoption, so it's okay, which was really skeevy to me. i didn't really enjoy the writing style, and found it to be more of an easy-read, but the minus-two stars is really just from the way the incestuous relation was re-imagined into a still incestuous relation to make it 'okay', but just more distant (
Spoiler
persephone being a shard of gaia still makes her related to hades- gaia was hades' grandmother, so that'd make persephone technically hades' auntreally glad the reimagining didn't include any rape, though that's a fairly low bar to set.