A Goddess of Spring and Shadows

dnf at 61%

As you can see by my percentage, I did really try with this one. But as you can see that it's here, it didn't really matter. Even though my Kindle told me it would take roughly another half hour to finish the book, I wasn't up for finishing it. I like Hades and Persephone retellings – which is why I requested this – but it didn't work out. My liking for Persephone went up and down as the book carried on. Some scenes I liked her, other times I felt like she didn't have a solid personality. I liked Hades, I thought he had quite a solid personality – but that wouldn't have been enough for me to carry on.

The writing was a big reason why I chose not to finish the book. It wasn't capturing my attention as much as I would like. Around the time I stopped there was suddenly a trial about to happen? And Persephone was meant to partake for some reason? If that had happened either at the start of the book or have been the main plot point, I probably would've carried on as I really like trials. I noticed the dialogue wasn't flowing neatly and unfortunately that tends to make or break a novel for me.