The Dark Wife is as much about watching Persephone grow and make new friends as it was about the romance. Of the two main characters, I thought Persephone was better developed than Hades, who was a tad bland. I wasn’t completely sold on the chemistry between Persephone and Hades but I really liked Persephone’s journey towards becoming more independent.
I really liked puppy-Cerberus, Pallas and seeing Hades’ relationship with Gaia. This is a pretty faithful take - with a spunky Persephone, not-evil Lady of the Underworld Hades, and d-bag Zeus - with some interesting side characters. Persephone and Hades has been one of my favourite stories ever since I had a children’s book of Greek mythology so this retelling really appealed to me.
But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. Zeus calls Hades “lord” of the dead as a joke. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice.
She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want–except for freedom. Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. GENRES/ SUBJECTS: RETELLING, MYTHOLOGY, FANTASY
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