Also, if you like this post, let me know in the comment section, it really helps me figure out what content you guys appreciate. Ultimately Zeus rules in Hades’ favor, when Hades tells him that Persephone has willingly come to him. I loved how the author introduced new supporting characters (Hephaestus, I’m looking at you) and how deep and dark this narrative really is. He also creates a project for his foundation with the sole purpose of creating a rehabilitation center for the mortals with whom he bargains for something. She has a master’s degree in library science and information studies and a bachelor’s in English writing.

It could’ve been more is all I’m saying, but that entire character growth moment was written like an afterthought. Hades, God of the Underworld, is known for his inflexible rule, luxurious night clubs, and impossible bargains.

They continue playing the card game, until she asks him a question about Hades, at which point, he reveals that he is Hades.

Hades teleports to his club, Nevernight, where he finds that one of the ogres in his employ has choked Persephone, and tells him that he will deal with him later. I also stream a variety of things over on Twitch with stream highlights and VODs posted on my YouTube Channel, and clips shared on my Clips YouTube Channel. The game ends when one player has captured all of their opponent’s pieces, or when one player has no pieces left to move. Since I doubt he just mopes around… granted, he does do that during the small window where him and Persephone break up when she fulfills her contract. He is glad to be rid of her after all the warnings he had given her over the months previously regarding Persephone, and the fact that she is to be their Queen.

And I’m daily in my Discord chatting with pack members, this is also where you’ll get updates from me on when things are happening around the interwebs, including if there’s a change in the Twitch stream schedule. He wants to know their connection to the Triad, a group of Impious mortals who opposed the gods, demanding fairness, freewill, and other demands–and they tended to be dangerous, wanting to overthrow the Gods. Despite his efforts, there are forces who wish to keep the two apart and Hades comes to realize he will do anything for his forbidden love, even defy Fate. I was concerned it would feel like reading the same book twice but it’s done in such a way where it doesn’t feel like that. I think if you are one of those readers that absolutely loved A Touch of Darkness, you will probably love this too.

Hephaestus tests out the shackles on Hades, from the minute he shows up at the forge the following day, and asks Hades if he has slept with Aphrodite. Hade's, God of the Underworld, had just found out that the Fates have found him a wife, and future Queen - the beautiful Goddess-in-hiding, Persephone. But she reveals that she had told Persephone about the bet that she had made with him about having someone fall in love with him.He summoned the god with a single command, and he appeared, wearing a mesh crop top and tiny leather shorts. Nearly six months had passed by this point, and Persephone has fallen in love with Hades–Aphrodite had asked and found it to be true, so she shows up at Hades’ nightclub to tell him that he’s won the bet. Hades did not like that question, or maybe he didn’t like his answer, but he spoke truthfully, nonetheless. This game is known as the Game of Fate and it is said that anyone who plays this game will have their future decided by the roll of a die.

Cifuentes is a passionate and driven individual who is always looking for new ways to help businesses succeed. Clair is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of the Hades X Persephone series, the Hades Saga, the Adrian X Isolde series, fairytale retellings, and When Stars Come Out.But it was minor enough that I could overlook it, though it still took me out of the book for a moment each time. Not to mention, the charity project that’s his character growth moment isn’t written in a way where it feels like a character growth moment. A Game of Fate is perfect for anyone who loves new urban interpretations of mythology and legend, steamy and fateful romance, and morally gray heroes with their secrets at heart. She plans a ball for the souls that are being reincarnated, and Hades is part of that in his Divine form, along with her.