I like a good Hades and Persephone retelling.

Persephone is engaged to Zeus without her knowledge or consent after the fact. She leaves the party and ends up getting chased down, and she crosses the River Styx into Hades territory. A man she didn’t know still existed, a myth.

She never wants to return to Olympus and be stuck with Zeus, especially as he has a reputation for making his wives go bye-bye. So she and Hades come up with a plan to knock Zeus down from his self-erected pedestal.

They fall in love. Of course they do. Fighting for each other, learning about each other. They have a classic “I’m not supposed to care about you, but it happened anyways” love story.

The playroom was an interesting twist to the story, and I like that consent is big.

I didn’t like the couple times a person of color was described that black was capitalized. That seemed completely unnecessary and drawing the wrong kind of attention to it. I’m all for adversity in books, but you don’t need undue attention to it, “look what I added!”