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Fruit of the dead
320 pages, Paperback
Published July 3, 2025
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September 11, 2025
Wenn Mans aufmerksam lesen würde, hätte es glaub ich Potential tiefgründig zu sein
September 12, 2025
I see this book was popular with some, I guess this book is not for me.
A pedophile with two shitty kids kidnaps a barely 18 year old from a camp, traps her, drugs her and makes her slowly addicted to the pills he produces. His ex-wife who married a pastor asp comes along and her role is just plain weird.
The young kidnapped girl stays on the island and gets higher and higher as the pedo drugs her more and more. He rapes her and we come to understand that he views her as his old babysitter who was probably just as young and who died ("from too much fun"/ aka probs an overdose or him choking her while he raped her). She wakes up the next morning grossed out and cuts herself and calls for her mom. The mother is the only (kinda?) redeeming character, she has an inkling of responsibility but the pace and the resolution takes too long and then finishes in 30 secs.
this book is gross
it makes my skin crawl
it's like a pedophiles wet dream i guess
this is an insult to the tales of hades and persephone and demeter
I'm not the kind of person to enjoy a pedophile drugging and training a young girl to like him, no offense to the author.
A pedophile with two shitty kids kidnaps a barely 18 year old from a camp, traps her, drugs her and makes her slowly addicted to the pills he produces. His ex-wife who married a pastor asp comes along and her role is just plain weird.
The young kidnapped girl stays on the island and gets higher and higher as the pedo drugs her more and more. He rapes her and we come to understand that he views her as his old babysitter who was probably just as young and who died ("from too much fun"/ aka probs an overdose or him choking her while he raped her). She wakes up the next morning grossed out and cuts herself and calls for her mom. The mother is the only (kinda?) redeeming character, she has an inkling of responsibility but the pace and the resolution takes too long and then finishes in 30 secs.
this book is gross
it makes my skin crawl
it's like a pedophiles wet dream i guess
this is an insult to the tales of hades and persephone and demeter
I'm not the kind of person to enjoy a pedophile drugging and training a young girl to like him, no offense to the author.
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January 1, 2026
3,5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is not your average Hades and Persephone retelling. It is more like a retelling of the myth of Core and Demeter: the book tells the story of a wayward daughter and a worried mother. It is closer to a thriller than a romance. So, keep that in mind.
I personally found the setting quite intriguing, it felt realistic yet so far out of the ordinary. And the dual point of view narration added to the emotional layering of the story. It’s a very interesting read for anybody who is interested in the intrigue and danger of power imbalances and who is not shy about getting into the nitty gritty, unglazed truth of them.
This is not your average Hades and Persephone retelling. It is more like a retelling of the myth of Core and Demeter: the book tells the story of a wayward daughter and a worried mother. It is closer to a thriller than a romance. So, keep that in mind.
I personally found the setting quite intriguing, it felt realistic yet so far out of the ordinary. And the dual point of view narration added to the emotional layering of the story. It’s a very interesting read for anybody who is interested in the intrigue and danger of power imbalances and who is not shy about getting into the nitty gritty, unglazed truth of them.
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October 31, 2025
The synopsis and the reality are polls apart. I don’t know the greek mythology this supposedly based on, but the characters are no where near as ‘magnetic’ or ‘intoxicating’, nor the storyline as ‘electric’ as they claim. It’s a sad story, with characters you hate, hating on each other. It’s a predictable ending. And it’s not clever enough to make a point about society.
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