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A review by brii_brii
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
3.0
11/ 13/ 2021 ★★★
05/11/2024 ☆☆☆
I stand by my original rating of this book. It's absolutely a 3 star book, and honestly, that might even be pushing it.
I'm rereading because I wanted to finish the last few books of the series that I never go around to, but I'm second-guessing my decision.
Persephone comes off as extremely immature and childish. She's bordering on irredeemably annoying; just a typical rebelling teenager (except she's not a teenager). She also feels like an airhead to me, like she's walking around, confused all the time. Honestly, she's a pretty boring character.
I want to say that I liked Hades, but I can't. We didn't really get to know him other than in little snippets. Everything we do learn about him comes from random other characters. I know he's rich. I know he owns clubs? And restaurants? But.. also makes deals with people. And runs the underworld. (Where does this dude get all his time?). I felt that he had very little personality other than “listened
to Persephone and started a charity so obviously he's a decent man/god/whatever). He also has very little character.
I just wasn't invested in anyone. Except Hermes. Here's my little shout out to Hermes ♥︎ in these books of Gods my heart always finds itself to Hermes.
Continuing, I found the pair had very little chemistry, and their relationship was pretty typical insta-love. Zero romance. Zero swoon. Just, boom. In love. Let's bake cookies.
I will say this book was a quick, easy read. There was enough going on in the story that although I didn't love it, I kept turning pages. You knew the ball had to drop at some point because let's face it, there are a ton of books in this series, and this book had very little plot.
The ending eventually did bring a little more something, something to the table. I just wish I didn't have to wait a whole book for it to happen.
05/11/2024 ☆☆☆
I stand by my original rating of this book. It's absolutely a 3 star book, and honestly, that might even be pushing it.
I'm rereading because I wanted to finish the last few books of the series that I never go around to, but I'm second-guessing my decision.
Persephone comes off as extremely immature and childish. She's bordering on irredeemably annoying; just a typical rebelling teenager (except she's not a teenager). She also feels like an airhead to me, like she's walking around, confused all the time. Honestly, she's a pretty boring character.
I want to say that I liked Hades, but I can't. We didn't really get to know him other than in little snippets. Everything we do learn about him comes from random other characters. I know he's rich. I know he owns clubs? And restaurants? But.. also makes deals with people. And runs the underworld. (Where does this dude get all his time?). I felt that he had very little personality other than “listened
to Persephone and started a charity so obviously he's a decent man/god/whatever). He also has very little character.
I just wasn't invested in anyone. Except Hermes. Here's my little shout out to Hermes ♥︎ in these books of Gods my heart always finds itself to Hermes.
Continuing, I found the pair had very little chemistry, and their relationship was pretty typical insta-love. Zero romance. Zero swoon. Just, boom. In love. Let's bake cookies.
I will say this book was a quick, easy read. There was enough going on in the story that although I didn't love it, I kept turning pages. You knew the ball had to drop at some point because let's face it, there are a ton of books in this series, and this book had very little plot.
The ending eventually did bring a little more something, something to the table. I just wish I didn't have to wait a whole book for it to happen.