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DID NOT FINISH: 11%
I saw another review that said this is what happens when you have your Wattpad phase in your 30s, and I absolutely agree. I couldn’t even vaguely understand where this was going, and what the author was intending, because absolutely no world building or explanation was happening in the first few chapters. And the time jumping didn’t help.
The only reason I know this is a Persephone and Hades retelling is because of other reviews I started reading while I was listening to the audiobook (which shows you how not invested I was). And I did that because I needed some explanation as to what I was supposed to be expecting from the plot. It shouldn’t take almost 50 pages before you start providing world building and a backstory that makes sense and isn’t some weird vague dream memory. Which I would like to point out was not happening when I finally quit. Absolutely no explanation and no world building.
And who knows, maybe I’m absolutely in the wrong and all that stuff starts happening immediately in chapter 5. But I am far too old and I have far too many books that I want to read to waste my time on something that is just pissing me off.