I get it that she feels inferior to Persephone but Persephone doesn’t do anything to justify her feeling that way. Persephone sure faints, is knocked out, or just drops on the spot a lot, like, every second chapter.Īgain, this might be inherent to the plot but at some point I almost thought the book was written in Eurydice’s PoV and she’s in a coma instead of Persephone’s, there was just so much fade to black!Īlso, Melissa is being awfully irrational… and irritating. What I didn’t get, though – I actually resented it – was the continuous, “and all went black”-stuff. Also, I’d like to murder Persephone so I can get my way with her husband. To be honest, sometimes it’s a bit annoying, although I get the necessity of it for plot’s sake. There’s so much tension between Hades and Persephone, you could walk on the string of it like those bears on one-wheelers in circus shows. I don’t know if I liked this second installment of Daughters of Zeus more than, as much as, or less than Persephone.ĭon’t get me wrong: I liked it, I just don’t know how to quantify it. There wasn’t that much of a cliffhanger between the first two of books, but there was still some suspense that got unraveled in the course of the second book, flowing right into a MAJOR cliffhanger to the third installment, The Iron Queen – which sounds to me more Celtic, fairy inspired than Greek. Daughter of the Earth and Sky picks up where Persephone left off.

Love & War by Kaitlin Bevis