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A review by claire_ingram1987
Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis
1.0
Mediocre with an irritating female protagonist
I love Hades and Persephone as a story generally and I love retellings but this one missed the mark massively for me.
The main character at the start seemed bubbly friendly and sweet but her personality didn’t seem stable, she didn’t seem stable. Within two minutes of being in the underground she was snarkily thinking “who are you to tell me what to do” she seemed to swing between sweet and innocent and charming to snarky and aggressive. She regularly lost her temper even attacking hades at one point. She acted unsure but then entitled. All of which I could put down to her age because the author drilled that she was 16 YEARS OLD over and over.
So like ok young but then pushed in this awkward love story between her and Hades who kept fighting it because she is so young and it almost felt like the author was trying to justify it saying well they are immortals and age is but a number SHES A MINOR !!! A child and she acts like one and is then pissed that hades treats her like one. So her behaviour anyway yep she’s a child and a freaking moron (I’ll get to that)
But hades moods were often erratic and would sometimes switch from endearing or sensual to aggressive and having a go, and then Cassandra went in a mood and I just assumed everyone in the underworld clearly is BIPOLAR
So too stupid to live, I’ve heard this phrase used but never seen it before until this book.
Persephone isn’t even in the underworld 3 months only just learning her powers and suddenly wants to take on a freaking GOD that’s been around a lot longer than her and with tonnes of powers,
Of course she does
And betrays everyone to do this and then suddenly has the power to beat a god
I love Hades and Persephone as a story generally and I love retellings but this one missed the mark massively for me.
The main character at the start seemed bubbly friendly and sweet but her personality didn’t seem stable, she didn’t seem stable. Within two minutes of being in the underground she was snarkily thinking “who are you to tell me what to do” she seemed to swing between sweet and innocent and charming to snarky and aggressive. She regularly lost her temper even attacking hades at one point. She acted unsure but then entitled. All of which I could put down to her age because the author drilled that she was 16 YEARS OLD over and over.
So like ok young but then pushed in this awkward love story between her and Hades who kept fighting it because she is so young and it almost felt like the author was trying to justify it saying well they are immortals and age is but a number SHES A MINOR !!! A child and she acts like one and is then pissed that hades treats her like one. So her behaviour anyway yep she’s a child and a freaking moron (I’ll get to that)
But hades moods were often erratic and would sometimes switch from endearing or sensual to aggressive and having a go, and then Cassandra went in a mood and I just assumed everyone in the underworld clearly is BIPOLAR
So too stupid to live, I’ve heard this phrase used but never seen it before until this book.
Persephone isn’t even in the underworld 3 months only just learning her powers and suddenly wants to take on a freaking GOD that’s been around a lot longer than her and with tonnes of powers,
Of course she does
And betrays everyone to do this and then suddenly has the power to beat a god