A review by jeslyncat
The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain

3.0

I am a sucker for any type of myth retelling, but I literally can't stop myself from reading anything that has to do with the Persephone/Hades myth. For real. So here we are. This book was really 3 1/2 stars, but not quite 4 stars. So thanks to Goodreads' crappy system, it's getting three stars. There were some minor annoyances, but a lot of these are specific to me, for example I hate when exclamations are altered for a different cultural norm, for example, this book uses "harpies" instead of say, "God!" or other Underworld slang. I felt it was overused, and fairly annoying. There were also some inconsistencies in what Haden knows. He makes some pretty adamant statements about having never heard music before--not even knowing what it is, but then everyone knows that it's banned, and later, he recalls a lullaby his mother sang for him. I'll write a longer, joint review once I finish .