A review by c45p1n
Neon Gods by Katee Robert

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

i’m gonna break it down to the basics:

  • the smut was fast build-up and then irrelevant plateauing. tiktok and instagram over exaggerated the smut and honestly i’d give it like a 3 on the spice scale (and that’s probably being generous)
  • as a hades/persephone retelling i was immensely let down. the story was a retelling in the barest sense, meaning robert took their names and city and slapped it into some characters. 
  • BUT, as a book in general it wasn’t bad, and it was easy to get distracted into it 
  • the lines and sayings and similes/metaphors were repetitive and it felt like it was just the same 4 paragraphs a lot of the time
  • hades was really sweet in this and he wasted no time falling in love with persephone
  • again, for a book that’s like “renowned” for its smut, it was a let down.  
  • there was just an abundance of inner monologuing 
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