The Iron Queen
Daughters of Zeus #3
by Kaitlin Bevis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Iron Queen wraps up the Daughters of Zeus series. Persephone has been kidnapped by Zeus and taken who knows where, Hades is well, as mad as hades and search everywhere for her. Demeter, Melissa and Aphrodite are working to round up the rest of Zeus' children. Zeus wants Persephone to swear fealty to him, but Persephone made a vow to do nothing to harm Hades, so she can't; so Zeus continues to torture her hoping she will break, not realizing she can't. At the same time, a large contingent of Zeus' other children are gathered in Demeter's house with Hades working on a plan to save Persephone.
Can Hades come up with a plan? Will everyone go along with it? and will they be able to get to Persephone in time?
This has been an amazingly wonderful, fun mythology romantic book that would appeal to so many readers. It is not anything along the lines of the recent publications that have come out featuring the Gods, this has more romance, but there is a tenderness and a protectiveness to the romance that warms your soul when reading it.
I would recommend the book to anyone who has any faint interest in romance, mythology, fantasy, paranormal or just needing something enjoyable to read.
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Daughter of the Earth and Sky
Daughters of Zeus #2
by Kaitlin Bevis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Reviewed for +Readers' Favorite .
All her life Persephone thought she was a normal teenager, now she has found out she is really a God and married to one of the best looking Gods around, Hades. Problem is that Zeus, who happens to be her father, is hunting her down. Of course she is also dealing with this thing that mostly the Gods marry for power and not for love, and she is not really sure what is going on with her and Hades. To top that all off she still wants to try to finish her senior year like a normal teen. There is just too much going on, and he is running herself ragged, not to mention setting herself up to be easy pickings for Zeus. Daughter of Earth and Sky is about Persephone, because her father is Zeus, God of the sky, and her mom is Demeter, God of the earth. Not to mention her marriage to Hades, giving her power in the Underworld making the most powerful God alive. Kaitlin Bevis weaves traditional mythology with a contemporary setting and romance that ends up being cute and endearing.
Daughter of Earth and Sky is a different take on the recent stories that have been published featuring the Gods and mythology. It is focused more towards the female reader, but at the same time it has enough mythology in it to interest a wide range of readers. The tenderness and interactions between Persephone and Hades are a joy to read. Kaitlin Bevis has done a great job of making this story feel like it could actually be happening in real life. I was life with the need to find the next book in the series when I finished this book. I needed more. Young adult readers and even older readers will enjoy this book.
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