Hey, so, this book is pretty terrible, it suffers from being the next book I read after the masterpiece that was Madeline Miller’s Circe, but, I was on a Greek/mythological kick so I thought I would check it out. 

Cringeworthy writing, very little plot. The romance is extremely shallow, but it does have some top tier smut. I think Hades wins in a fight with Christian Grey for being a sexy S&M type, and he treats Persephone pretty well, and honestly, that’s attractive to me as a reader, but yeah…. Don’t expect too much from this one, it’s all sex, no substance. 

Also if you’re reading this because it’s listed as LGBTQ literature be aware that the main focus romance is extremely cis/het. Persephone is bisexual and refers at least once to having an ex girlfriend, and Hades has one chapter where he is admiring the attractiveness of a man, and Eros might also be bisexual but nothing was explicitly stated in the text. I like Persephone, and I think it’s very important to have bisexual protagonists in fantasy novels, but as far as LGBTQ themes go, I’ll say they’re very few and far between.