She’s fallen straight into the hands of Hades’ gambling empire, which now thrives in the mortal world. Before she knows it, she’s entered a dangerous bet with the God of the Dead.

Hades is the perfect morally gray male character who despite all the horrible things he’s done, you can’t help but fall in love with him. He was masterfully written to remain mysterious while still wildly open and loving. You could really see his heart through Persophene's experiences with him and I found myself desperate to learn more about him.While St. Clair uses this story as a loose guideline, she adds various modern twists including gambling and steamy details of their relationship. Fans have lapped up this modern reimagining and continue to eagerly anticipate anything else St. Clair writes. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. Y'all probably know that I love Hades and Persephone retelling, so, I was excited for read this book. Also, the hype on bookstagram and booktok was really big, so I said "why not, Ale? You love this retelling with your life, so, let's give it a try." .... Huge mistake from me trust in the hype over a book, as if I have never been in this place before (if you want references here is my shelf big hype, big lie so you can have an idea of a few of my big disappointing and regrets in this life, lol.

Yes! The Hades Sagais part of the Hades x Persephone series. The Hades Saga books are just told from Hades’ point of view. Related Book Lists: Nothing she did made any sense to me. Like in the beginning when she just kept going to the Hades’ club for seemingly no reason at all? Or when she was forced by the contract to produce life in the underworld and thought she could just bring some gardening tools and some dollar store seeds and that would just work? Persephone has chosen to live in the mortal world. She has been sheltered her whole life from her evil protective mother and hasn’t learned how to use her powers, believes they just don’t exist, and wants desperately to belong somewhere. She’s in college, hiding her Goddess identity, studying to be a journalist. Her mother has given her specific instructions to avoid all the Gods/Goddesses…especially Hades. The Gods/Goddesses aren’t nice beings. They’re mean, manipulative, and Hades is particularly hated. Persephone is intrigued by the idea of Hades. He’s one of the Gods that doesn’t appear much in the mortal world, is shrouded in mystery, and never photographed. He owns some very trendy nightclubs and casinos. Giphy The smut was fine??? It wasn't bad, but it was the only trait that Hades and Persephone had. They had a lot of sexual tension, but I didn't see the romance there so, this book goes to the "this shit has no romance" shelf.Yes, the Hades x Persephone series is a complete series, ending with the final book, A Touch of Chaos. Is the Hades Saga Part of the Hades x Persephone Series? Not to mention that, if Persephone is college-aged and Hades is millennia old, the age difference is far beyond anything even Twilight could throw at us.

Also it’s not that this characterization is bad it’s just that it reminds me too much of that Rhysand guy from a court of roses and thorns. Demeter tries to capture her daughter again. But Persephone isn’t the same girl anymore. She uses her powers to take down the greenhouse and escape her mother. Conclusion I feel like the problem is that it lures you in with the premise of an unique and creative modern day retelling of Persephone and Hades (which sounds amazing btw if there actually is a good version of this please let me know) but it really just is a cliche billionaire romance with Greek god characters. But it is soon learned that Hades is not as evil and despicable as most people presume. Turns out he’s secretly the most concerned and compassionate person ever, which is vouched by seemingly EVERYONE in the underworld. Because depending on what you are looking for, this can determine whether you rate A Touch of Darkness 4 – 5 stars or 1 – 3 stars.Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch.

This is something that Scarlett St. Clair can't be blamed for, but bears mentioning: the narrator of this audiobook has three major flaws, as far as I'm concerned. A) Her male voices all sound the same: gravelly and molasses-slow. Hades sounds like Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith. B) She over-enunciates almost everything. C) She gets into the sex scenes. Like. REALLY gets into the sex scenes.Ugh, Hades is hot sis. Like Rhysand, Damon Salvatore kinda hot. St Clair showcased exactly why the god of the Underworld should be feared, and also why he is sexy AF. This surprisingly, was actually my first book based on the ancient Greek gods. In her excellent series Hades & Persephone, Scarlett St. Clair creates her own setting, inspired by the culture and landscape of ancient Greece but with an attractive, modern twist. She calls it ‘New Greece’ and her overarching story is based on the real Hades and Persephone myth. I don’t really feel like I got to see them interact enough on a personal level for the attraction to be there, and there was even a point in the last fourth of the book where Persephone remarks on spending several weeks with Hades in which he plays with children and builds them a playground and that during this time she connects with him: And now the syntax. The sentence structure was just sloppy, I don’t know a nicer way to say it. Everything read in a fragmented manner, and I constantly found myself re-reading passages because they were awkward or difficult to understand due to how they were written.