She seems ready to believe the worst of Hades at all times, no matter what he does. Her motivations are all over the place: does she want adventure, a life outside her mother's grasp? Does she want passion and/or love (two things that are alternately conflated and differentiated, as the situation dictates)? Does she want to trust Hades and challenge her preconceived notions of him? Or does she want those notions confirmed, despite his words and actions? Persephone barely functions as a protagonist, let alone a heroine.
The only way to properly address my feelings about this book is to organize things in a list, so here we go: Then I started the audiobook and it all went downhill from there. A modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth? Great! As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden.I was excited to read "A Touch of Darkness" based on the synopsis I was given. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. She answered, "Yes." Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only.
"You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it.
She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth.
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