Review: Just as entertaining as the first
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
**Review written for an originally posted on my blog, Book Bliss.I received a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased and honest review**Review: 5 starsGeneral: Book 2 of this series doesn’t disappoint. Please note that you may be able to read this without book 1 but it will lose some of it’s awesomeness. This book picks up a little bit after the first has left off. Persephone is still who she was before…until events that shake her to her core make her question everything from her mother to her husband.When another goddess enters the scene Persephone has a shift in her world, both good and bad. It made the character interactions change from playful to tense and helped me connect even deeper with Persephone and her struggle. Thantos has done something awful and it broke my heart to see his particular character shift but it was a fantastic plot to the story and added the right amount of fear and drama into their lives. I was a tiny bit disappointed at the lack of time with Hades as their relationship really was such a strong point in the prior book but loved the realism behind their story in this installment.This book does essentially end on a cliffhanger….yes I know the dread cliffhanger. However it suited the book. It wasn’t a cliffhanger because more wasn’t written. It was a cliffhanger because the entire plot had run it’s course and it was the device to move to book 3. To me, that is the perfct way to use a cliffhanger and not make fans to crazy waiting.Characters: Persephone- Persephone is growing stronger in this book. She’s also loosing herself. Her journey was wonderful. It felt so realistic as she went from top of her game to barely alive from torture and deception from everyone she holds dear. Her interactions with Aphrodite had me screaming at the book because Aphrodite was so annoying I had no idea why she was following her, but that’s what happens when you get lost.Hades- No change in Hades in this book…or was there? No spoilers coming from me on what does or does not happen with this sexy husband of Persephone’s.