Review: King of Shadows - Amelia Wilde
Review: King of Shadows - Amelia Wilde - January 2020
I wasn't sure what to expect
with King of Shadows and it took a different twist than I had assumed as I was
drawn to this book from the blurb as it was a modern dark romance take on the
story of Hades and Persephone. I love my Greek mythology as well as modern
renditions of legends etc. King of Shadows starts with us meeting Persephone
and her mother Demeter. Demeter practically has Persephone under lock and key
which makes Persephone want to escape that one step closer. Over the past
months, having a fence separate them Persephone and Decker have been making
plans to escape to New York as Persephone wants to visit the New York Public
Library and see the Lions. This made me smile as it brought back memories of
when I went to New York and one of the things I was looking most forward to was
also visiting the New York Public Library. (Nerdy
right, but then again I'm a bookaholic.)Their
plan though is cut short when they are caught by Hades and Persephone exchanges
her life for Decker's to save him. This has made Hades happy as he now
has Demeter's daughter in his possession and control. The next part of the book
follows Persephone's experience in Hades's control and she goes from Virgin to
being a Submissive to Hades. I did get excited when Zeus called asking about
Persephone and hoped we had some more background on why she was being protected
from her mother and drilled in to hate Hades but that didn't come. The ending
frustrated me as it ends on a cliffhanger and seriously WTF Decker, I wanted to
play a pun on his name and Deck him one. The cliffhanger for this book was
quite a big one and now I can't wait to read Book #2 when it is released.
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