Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar

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However, since its a debut novel, I do feel that the author has loads more potential for her next work so, I'm definitely going to be a look out for it. The YA genre has really enabled the parent-child reading crossover and I am so grateful for books such as this one, which spark conversation and create common ground between two utterly different generations!

But faking an epic love story to fool history brings with it complications neither of them anticipated, including the very real feelings they begin to have for each other, which become increasingly difficult to turn off when they’re away from their captive audience. Girl, Goddess, Queen takes Hades and Persephone's tale and creates the ultimate rom-com drama with Persephone's growth and journey at its heart. I felt like every scene was dragged out between chapters and it would have worked better if it was dual perspective for this. To escape an arranged, and possibly incestuous, marriage, Kore - repressed daughter of Zeus - escapes to the pits of hell.Maybe some chapters from Hades's point of view would have worked better than just hearing from Persephone, or having it written in the third person. I know if you had your way you’d go off exploring the world, planting flowers, probably wearing a vastly inappropriate outfit and no shoes.

Do you really think that if I had the power to keep you safe myself, then I wouldn’t choose to have you by my side forever? So Persephone needs to get married because apparently that's all that matters to gods (why have we gone down this road? Into a Goddess struggling with warring emotions of loving her newly acquired freedoms and learning about who she is becoming whilst it feels like a betrayal to her mother.

It was also clunky with phrases you'd expect to see on a modern teen drama or TikTok which considering the context was very jarring.

I know my mother will never understand because what it comes down to is this: safety isn’t enough for me. I was expecting more tension and a slow burning longing, and gradual development/realisation of feelings. She spends about 75% of the novel complaining how everyone just goes around and takes things out of pure entertainment things that are not theirs, and yet, she does exactly this!Many thanks to Penguin Random House SA for including me in this readalong and for the beautiful gifted copy.