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Hades and Persephone - Threads of Fate (Gods of Myth #2) by Alannah Carbonneau

Genre:
Second Chance Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Contemporary, Hades and Persephone, Retellings, Greek Gods, Book Series, Academia, Dark Romance, Greek Mythology

Publication Date:
December 10, 2024

Page Numbers:
253

Read/Finished Date:
August 7th, 2025

Rating:
DNF'ed @ 25%

Premise:

Persephone
A love of ancient Greek lore, and a passion for archaeology brought me to Greece.
I should have known better than to work for Hades Pluton.
He is magnetic, and dark, and dangerous.
He is a painter of torment, and his touch promises the most delicious sin.
He is everything my mother warned me about men.
And yet my heart is a prisoner to his.
Ancient lore brought me here, but my love for him threatens to keep me.
If I could trust my slipping mind, I might not fight it so hard—this love.
But my mind is slipping. It’s been fragile since I was a child, but now that I’m seeing things, visions, dreams—none of it is real. I can’t help but question the reality of us, too.
He doesn’t deserve someone like me. Someone who sees things that aren’t there…
So, I’ll leave him. Eventually.
But I’ll love him first.

Hades
I am trying to do it right this time. Her and I.
The story of Hades and Persephone.
I vowed I would not steal her. Would not plunder her body, her heart, her mind. Vowed I would not force her loyalty.
I will earn her love.
I will worship the body she gifts me, and protect the soul she offers me to keep.
I am trying to maintain patience, to honor my vows—but there are darker forces at play.
The story of love is rarely told without tragedy.
And this is ours.
For the war has already begun.

Review:

When it comes to retellings of the Hades and Persephone retellings, I have a high standard for them because each spin should be unique and really keep their readers engaged in a tale that has been told numerous times by other authors, and while I do understand some stories need time to explore characterization and plot, this one did not do that. It rather seemed to have stalled and become nearly nonexistent. Scenes and character interactions felt repetitive and boring. I had already grown exhausted over Hades's indecisiveness, especially when it came to the need to explain things to Persephone. I think if this had been done in the first part of the novel, it would have given the storyline the push it needed in pacing.

Unfortunately, because of this, I ended up DNFing this book @ 25%.

Similar Books:

A Goddess of Spring and Shadow by Lena J. Castle
Dead of Spring: A Hades and Persephone Retelling by Colette Rhodes
Thief of Spring by Katherine Macdonald