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Hades
by Alexandra Adornetto
Read the full review at Working for the Mandroid
Hades picks up a few months after Halo ends with Bethany and Xavier all flowers and rainbows again. Then comes Jake, masked as someone else, who tricks Bethany onto a motorcycle during one of her many fits of stupidity, and takes her to hell to reign as his queen. Now if you read my review of Halo, you know that I liked Jake in the first book. He was stereotypical, but at least he was fun in a sea of blah. In this book, however, he becomes almost as useless and stupid as Bethany. I mean, he kidnaps an angel, takes her to hell, and then expects her to fall madly in love with him and stay with him forever and ever. You’re kidding me, right?
The author uses a nice little storytelling device where Bethany can transport her consciousness to the outside world and see what her siblings Gabriel and Ivy are doing to rescue her. About a third of the book is told this way, meaning at least a third of the book consists of our narrator doing absolutely nothing and being useless. When she does do something, she ends up doing something stupid that convinces her not to do anything else for another hundred pages.
Though the part that gnaws on my brain the most is the description of hell. Apparently in Jake’s realm, it consists of night clubs where people are forced to dance forever in their afterlife. There are limos and motorcycles that zoom around in underground tunnels. Bethany is sent to live in the penthouse of a luxury hotel. Yes, some poor suckers are getting tortured through ritual mutilation, but we only dwell on that for a page or two. Then it’s back to the hotel with the gourmet food and executive conference rooms. And the devil wears cowboy boots. Um… what?
This book has all the problems of the first with the addition of being far more boring due to lack of character development since we’re familiar with the players already. The new secondary characters are the most interesting ones in the book and they hardly make a dent in page count. The religious dogma is even heavier handed and more repetitious that it starts sounding like an adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon. This volume also starts beating you with the “no sex before marriage” moral and once Adornetto starts, she rarely stops.
Hades picks up a few months after Halo ends with Bethany and Xavier all flowers and rainbows again. Then comes Jake, masked as someone else, who tricks Bethany onto a motorcycle during one of her many fits of stupidity, and takes her to hell to reign as his queen. Now if you read my review of Halo, you know that I liked Jake in the first book. He was stereotypical, but at least he was fun in a sea of blah. In this book, however, he becomes almost as useless and stupid as Bethany. I mean, he kidnaps an angel, takes her to hell, and then expects her to fall madly in love with him and stay with him forever and ever. You’re kidding me, right?
The author uses a nice little storytelling device where Bethany can transport her consciousness to the outside world and see what her siblings Gabriel and Ivy are doing to rescue her. About a third of the book is told this way, meaning at least a third of the book consists of our narrator doing absolutely nothing and being useless. When she does do something, she ends up doing something stupid that convinces her not to do anything else for another hundred pages.
Though the part that gnaws on my brain the most is the description of hell. Apparently in Jake’s realm, it consists of night clubs where people are forced to dance forever in their afterlife. There are limos and motorcycles that zoom around in underground tunnels. Bethany is sent to live in the penthouse of a luxury hotel. Yes, some poor suckers are getting tortured through ritual mutilation, but we only dwell on that for a page or two. Then it’s back to the hotel with the gourmet food and executive conference rooms. And the devil wears cowboy boots. Um… what?
This book has all the problems of the first with the addition of being far more boring due to lack of character development since we’re familiar with the players already. The new secondary characters are the most interesting ones in the book and they hardly make a dent in page count. The religious dogma is even heavier handed and more repetitious that it starts sounding like an adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon. This volume also starts beating you with the “no sex before marriage” moral and once Adornetto starts, she rarely stops.