Review: Excellent Persephone & Hades Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2012
Most of us know the myth of Persephone and Hades, but here the author gave some fresh ideas to the tale.  Hades was presented as a strong but sympathetic and desirable character.  His love and longing for Persephone were swoon-worthy, rather than frightening or skeevy.  If you were going to spend time in the Underworld, *this* Hades is the one you'd gladly do it for!On that note, the Underworld was presented in an interesting way was well, and I enjoyed reading about how Hades came to rule it and how that impacted his interactions with other gods.As to Persephone, I loooved her!  I felt that she was presented a strong, fully realized  character in her own right, rather than some weak, whiny victim that needed to be rescued.  She was a true god in this book with powers of her own and intelligence, and this was so refreshing to see.  There were interesting twists in her background and a very surprising explanation for why she cared about humans.The relationship development and action were very good.  The story here really was superb.  I  truly enjoyed this book and will probably re-read it some point.  Persephone and Hades are one of my favorite "couples" in literature, since in my mind, their story is a variant of Beauty and the Beast (which is my favorite theme).With all that said, there were some severe editing issues with this book.  It was riddled with errors, misspellings, wrong words, conflated words, etc, etc.  The errors were all.up.and.through. this book.  It was beyond the need for a professional editor. I felt that the book was have benefited greatly if the author had just gotten one of her good girlfriends to proofread it and make corrections.  However, the story itself outshone these editing problems.  The story was head and shoulders above the editing and was 5+ star worthy in my opinion.  I really hope the author will issue a corrected version and do this work justice.