Book Review: A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was all over the place. I felt like Persephone was making a whole bunch of mistakes and isn't giving a damn about the consequences, and she's not caring for herself. She's not even thinking straight when it came to her friends and her relationship with Hades. She's just doing everything and damning the consequences, which is very bad in my opinion. Every time she and Hades have a conversation, she's either holding back on him, or she's yelling at him, which really doesn't make any sense at all. Why fight him, then turn around and smash him after you get done yelling at him? What kind of relationship is that???

Then the whole thing with Apollo just really...confused me? Like she made a deal with him to be his friend for six months because you wanna save your friend Lexa-which will be my next point of discussion when I get to it-and when he agrees after you nearly take off his penis with your thorns, the first thing he does he take you to a club and forces you to judge a contest that shows how ruthless you can be...like sir? The hell is your damn problem? And he gets mad when she chooses the other guy over you...is you dumb??

The whole Lexa thing was just....plain weird and plain selfish. Lexa wanted to DIE, and yet Persephone tried everything in her power to save her, only for it to backlash in her face...and you want me to feel sorry for her? Really? 'Oh she needed to go through this' BULLSHIT. I felt like Persephone wasn't thinking with her brain or her heart, she just went through it without the consequences. She should've talked this through and not just jumped in, wholeheartedly, into this. If she did that, I think she would've been fine and the book would've been much better. Will I finish this series off? I might, but not for a minute because this book was a hella mess and it's my least favorite one out of the series.

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Book Review: A Touch of Darkness (Hades x Persephone #1) by Scarlett St. Clair

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is the first time I’ve read a Hades and Persephone retelling-and I enjoyed this. It was actually really good. I was gonna put this as a four star because of my problem of hating the mother in the story (*cough* Demeter*cough*) but I put it as five star because it's different. We all know the story of how Hades fell in love with Persephone and he “kidnapped” her to take her to the underworld and all that, but in this book, it’s very different.

Persephone is a student at New Athens who’s working on graduating college in six months, and to get a job and also live as a mortal. One night, she and her friend Lexa go to a club called Nevernight, which is owned by Hades, the God of the Dead. There they meet Adonis (whom I hate with a passion) and she starts to have a good time-until she meets Hades. The both of the played a simple game of cards and when Persephone lost, that’s when Hades made a deal with her: create life in the Underworld.

At first, Persephone was confused-she didn’t know how to create life in the underworld. Each time she uses her magic, everything dies. But the more she spent time down in the Underworld-meeting the souls and spending time with them, hanging out with Hecate and learning how to use her magic, even playing with Ceberus. But she didn’t expect that she was going to fall in love with Hades.

And Hades…oh my word. Hades in my new book husband, OH MY GOD. I can read him and be around him and never get tired of him. He’s TALL (my weakness), he’s very kind when he wanna be, cordial when he wanna be, and HIS HORNS ARE TALL AF AND I LOVE IT. Oh, and the spice is really good…I just wanna know if Hades eat (y’all know what I mean…) but other than that…Hades is always secretive like a mother’s tight purse.

Then shit kinda hit the fan with Adonis posting Persephone’s article and nearly hurt her if it wasn’t for Hades for stopping him. Then when he started blackmailing her…oh my god Adonis you idiot. But at the end Persephone found her magic, Persephone and Hades told each other that they loved each other (Which was perfect, honestly). I can’t wait to read book two to see how this goes because I’m now invested in this retelling.

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