A review by chelsaat
Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis

2.0

There's so much more you could do with this concept (Hades/Persephone in the modern day), if executed in the hands of a better writer. This story needed another 50 or so pages to simmer; the plot blew through so quickly and the characters changed on a dime. Persephone especially - she went from run-of-the-mill teen (it was seriously hard to get through the first chapter) to a bonafide badass in the course of a few months. I appreciate the effort to make her more than a wallflower, but we get hardly any inner turmoil or reasons behind her decisions - she just does them, sometimes out of the blue. It was hard to connect with her.

It's no secret I'm a huge Persephone/Hades fan, so I guess my standards are high. And I did like Hades here for the most part. Dude's smart enough to realize that attraction alone isn't a good enough reason to take advantage of a girl thousands of years younger than you. The Underworld that Bevis created here also had some really intriguing elements, but again, I wanted more.

Part of me still wants to read the sequel to see what happens next. Maybe after I read the other Persephone stuff on my TBR.