The Maiden & The Unseen by Jeanette Rose & Alexis Rune
We received an advanced reader copy of this book.
Published: September 27th 2022 by Rose and Star Publishing
Review:
Myth: 1/5
I love Hades and Persephone retellings, but I just didn’t like this one. Hades was a bit of a creep, and his internal dialogue acknowledging he was being creepy didn’t really make it better. I also just had a hard time with the plot, I’m usually pretty good about letting plot slide for the sake of the story/romance, but there were things that just didn’t make sense. He just told her she worked for him now and she did? What about her other job that she loved? He was obsessed with her but he didn’t check to see if she got her money back (after he took it)?
Lastly, the timelines jumped in weird ways in a number of places, going from Friday night to another work day back to the weekend, and it wasn’t moving the timeline for the sake of the story, it was more like the days of the week/weekends weren’t plotted out to line up with what the characters were doing.
Magic: 3/5
The shadow and plant magics were good, though they really only used them in sex scenes. Persephone’s power build around Hades was also fun.
Overall: 1/5
Unfortunately, this one wasn’t for me.
