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The Iron Queen
by Kaitlin Bevis
This is a trimmed down version of my review, to view the full review visit The Book Ramble.
Persephone's been captured by Zeus, who plans to use her to get controlled over all of the realms. Hades, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the remaining gods must work together to try and save Persephone from Zeus. Or, would is be better to let her save herself? The group grapples with this problem, unable to reach Persephone, and with time running out, what is there for them to do except hope for Persephone to come into her powers and save them all before Hades does something that they'll all regret.
I liked this book, and am certainly a little sad to see the end of Persephone's journey. I think I was somewhat underwhelmed with this book, it wasn't what I was expecting and there were aspects of it that really made me lose interest in the book and confused me. This book uses alternating perspectives instead of the standard, established single perspective of Persephone. The action had a good pace, and this book was basically entirely action. I think things, as always, got a little ahead of themselves and there was a bit too much going on for me to enjoy this book the way I did the others.
I really enjoyed the plot. We finally see the conclusion of this action surrounding Zeus. This whole plot was exhilarating with lots of interesting twists. Because of the alternating perspectives there are more lines of plot happening than in the previous books. We see Aphrodite and Melissa's searches for other demigods, Hades trying to find Persephone, and Persephone trying to fight off Zeus. I had some issues with these added perspectives, they certainly threw me at first, but I did appreciate the new dimension they added to the story. I think Bevis handled all the different lines of action well. Of course, there was some level of fuddling as in the other books, but it was definitely less severe and less noticeable.
Character development/relationship development-wise, this book was hugely disappointing. Nothing really developed in this book beyond the established relationships in the previous books. I don't think much of anything new was introduced in Persephone and Hades' relationship, except for some really bad attempts to create a love triangle with Triton. This was pretty disappointing considering the relationship between Persephone and Hades was what drew me to this story initially. I think there was too much focus on all of these new characters for the ending of those established characters to feel satisfactory.
I liked this book, but found it disappointing compared to the previous books in the series. It was good, but not the ending I had hoped for in this series.
Persephone's been captured by Zeus, who plans to use her to get controlled over all of the realms. Hades, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the remaining gods must work together to try and save Persephone from Zeus. Or, would is be better to let her save herself? The group grapples with this problem, unable to reach Persephone, and with time running out, what is there for them to do except hope for Persephone to come into her powers and save them all before Hades does something that they'll all regret.
I liked this book, and am certainly a little sad to see the end of Persephone's journey. I think I was somewhat underwhelmed with this book, it wasn't what I was expecting and there were aspects of it that really made me lose interest in the book and confused me. This book uses alternating perspectives instead of the standard, established single perspective of Persephone. The action had a good pace, and this book was basically entirely action. I think things, as always, got a little ahead of themselves and there was a bit too much going on for me to enjoy this book the way I did the others.
I really enjoyed the plot. We finally see the conclusion of this action surrounding Zeus. This whole plot was exhilarating with lots of interesting twists. Because of the alternating perspectives there are more lines of plot happening than in the previous books. We see Aphrodite and Melissa's searches for other demigods, Hades trying to find Persephone, and Persephone trying to fight off Zeus. I had some issues with these added perspectives, they certainly threw me at first, but I did appreciate the new dimension they added to the story. I think Bevis handled all the different lines of action well. Of course, there was some level of fuddling as in the other books, but it was definitely less severe and less noticeable.
Character development/relationship development-wise, this book was hugely disappointing. Nothing really developed in this book beyond the established relationships in the previous books. I don't think much of anything new was introduced in Persephone and Hades' relationship, except for some really bad attempts to create a love triangle with Triton. This was pretty disappointing considering the relationship between Persephone and Hades was what drew me to this story initially. I think there was too much focus on all of these new characters for the ending of those established characters to feel satisfactory.
I liked this book, but found it disappointing compared to the previous books in the series. It was good, but not the ending I had hoped for in this series.