When she asks Hades to teach her how to play poker, she lands herself in a deal with him. Persephone meets Hades without knowing it when she attends one of his clubs with a friend. The descriptions just made me want to live in that world.
Her comparisons of the Upper World to the Under World were thought provoking and interesting. And I loved her descriptions of the Underworld. The city of New Athens, the ways the gods connected with humans through business ventures. What I really loved about the story was the world that St. Hades and Zeus agree to allow Persephone to return for 6 months each year, but she must always return to the Underworld.Ī Touch of Darkness reads a bit differently. Her mother, Demeter, begs Hades to allow Persephone to return to the land of the living. While she is there, she eats 4 pomegranate seeds which ties her to her captor, Hades.
In the myth, Hades falls in love with Persephone and traps her in the Underworld. Clair is a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden.A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.Īfter her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose.
Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth.
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