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Girl, Goddess, Queen (Girl, Goddess, Queen #1) by Bea Fitzgerald

Genre:
Hades and Persephone, Retellings, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Ancient Greece, Fantasy, Romance, Rantasy Romance, Romantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Netgalley

Publication Date:
September 2, 2025

Page Numbers:
464

Read/Finished Date:
July 5th, 2025 - July 7th, 2025

Rating:
DNF'ed @ 50%

Premise:

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans...

Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying.

The real story is much more interesting.

Persephone wasn't taken to hell: she jumped. There was no way she was going to be married off to some smug god more in love with himself than her.

Now all she has to do is convince the Underworld's annoyingly sexy, arrogant and frankly rude ruler, Hades, to fall in line with her plan. A plan that will shake Mount Olympus to its very core.

But consequences can be deadly, especially when you're already in hell . . .

A fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy re-imagining from a growing TikTok superstar.

Review:

Before I begin this review, I would like to thank Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for giving me a chance to read this novel. All of the review is of my own and I am not being paid for it.

On that note, I have had this book on my radar since it first came out. The premise sounded promising and honestly, anything Hades and Persephone is something I will devour within no time. This book, however, disappointed me. Kore comes across a brat. I get it; she doesn't want to marry the god her mother and father pick out for her so she decides to inconvenience Hades himself. I understand why he is so suspicious of her and why he just general feels like she is invading his space. I would be in the same boat as he if some god or goddess decided to come into my realm and hide here. She doesn't listen either when he tells her not to go out there. She literally does the opposite and that annoyed the hell out of me.

Honestly, I ended up DNFing this book at fifty percent. The premise was promising but the execution of it was disappointing.