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A review by livist
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
I’m being a bit generous, would say this is like a 2.75 or so.
I was close to just not finishing this one, but I have a hard time not completing books. I was hoping it would get better and it was just okay.
The book feels, especially at first, like a fan fiction of Lore Olympus. Some of the setting is similar: Persephone in college, Hades owns a night club. Granted the source material is the same so they’re bound to have parallels. It diverges from it, but it was hard not to compare the two.
Any semblance of plot gets thrown out the window the moment they start having sex. Persephone is worried that her mom will find out what happened and trap her but Dimeter instead waits a beat before she confronts her. She doesn’t really think about any consequences of her actions and she most often doesn’t get any. Like how are you claiming to be a journalist without acknowledging you don’t have impartial bias bc you’re sleeping with the subject??
The sex scenes were kind of repetitive and gratuitous. They were getting it on during moments where I’m like really? Right now? It kept escalating to sex randomly to the point where I was no longer convinced Persephone and Hades don’t know the difference between lust and love.
Persephone is also insufferable at the beginning. I was so annoyed by her. I guess she got better or my tolerance for her just increased after the prolonged exposure.
Some of the other part of the world I liked, I liked the whimsical descriptions of the underworld, and also the narrator did an amazing job. I enjoyed the minor characters. Overall like the setting but it just wasn’t my journey ultimately. If you really just want to read smut with the backdrop of Greek gods in a modern setting, go for it.
I was close to just not finishing this one, but I have a hard time not completing books. I was hoping it would get better and it was just okay.
The book feels, especially at first, like a fan fiction of Lore Olympus. Some of the setting is similar: Persephone in college, Hades owns a night club. Granted the source material is the same so they’re bound to have parallels. It diverges from it, but it was hard not to compare the two.
The sex scenes were kind of repetitive and gratuitous. They were getting it on during moments where I’m like really? Right now? It kept escalating to sex randomly to the point where I was no longer convinced Persephone and Hades don’t know the difference between lust and love.
Persephone is also insufferable at the beginning. I was so annoyed by her. I guess she got better or my tolerance for her just increased after the prolonged exposure.
Some of the other part of the world I liked, I liked the whimsical descriptions of the underworld, and also the narrator did an amazing job. I enjoyed the minor characters. Overall like the setting but it just wasn’t my journey ultimately. If you really just want to read smut with the backdrop of Greek gods in a modern setting, go for it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Sexual assault