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A Touch of Ruin

Hades & Persephone, Book 2

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A Touch of Ruin

By: Scarlett St. Clair
Narrated by: Meg Sylvan
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About this listen

Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public, and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring.

Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone's eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away.

Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone's heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains with severe consequences.

Faced with a side of Hades she never knew and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades' queen.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Scarlett St. Clair (P)2020 Tantor Fantasy Fiction Magic Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology Heartfelt
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Super thin plot. P is so dumb and annoying. Ugh. Can’t be bothered reading next one (I probably will).

So bored

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I enjoyed the sequel in the way it rounded out the original book, included more gods/esses and made a nice visual for the community surrounding. A few PerHades scenes could have been chosen to appear more selected (after some traumatic scenes, they seemed misplaced). Persephone’s control and exploration of power would have been a better storyline than the Janitor/Maintenance man but overall, it was enjoyable and looking forward to book 3.

A nice sequel

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The book was well written, of course the raunchy bits were great but so is the love aspect too. I hope there’s going to be more as I just binge listened to both books in this series and can’t wait!
The narrator made this audio book for me, she so perfectly feels what the characters are feeling which entangles you more in the story.

Great story line, even better story telling

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Another great story I couldn’t put down. Love the narrator! Can’t wait to start the next book. I enjoyed the world building in this book and the character arcs too

Great listen

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What a disappointing and irritating waste of time this was. Persephone was great in book 1 but is utterly infuriating in book 2, and everyone's backpedaling and hyper exaggerated emotional flip flopping.. no

Exhausting

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was missing the adventure of YA books but for an adult audience and this delivered.
finally a female narrator who sounded her age!
loved this book and can't wait for the 3rd!

finally!

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I thoroughly enjoy being emersed in the greek mythology with a modern day twist. Persephone and Hades have always been my favourite pair x While Persephone is still struggling between the mortal world and the gods she must finally confront loss.

Heartache and Understanding

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The plot and characters have potential, I’m curious to see where the story goes. I’m also looking forward to the character development. Especially Apollo.
There are plenty of fun moments and a few that had my chest constricting with emotion.

However, there is a lot of sex in this book. Possibly too much, some of which felt inappropriate for the situation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no prude, I love a good story full of detailed, hot and steamy scenes. (I even have a few of my favourite filthy scenes from various stories book marked for revisiting) But I do prefer them to be more drawn out then in this story. Not so… wham bam.
The narrator does do a fantastic job of pushing intensity into these sexy encounters though. I had a few moments when I was out in public and had to turn off the book due to a deep blush and feeling like I was personally engaging in a dirty act of public indecency.

Over all I enjoyed the story. But it didn’t make it into my top 50. I probably won’t reread.

Erotica with plot potential

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I love this series, just the right amount of drama, sex and suspense. Highly recommend this book.

Such a great series.

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This book gave more wrath that is expected from the Gods. I truly enjoyed the first two but this book showed Persephone coming into her own power. The writing is incredible and can’t wait for more

Excited for more

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