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The Labyrinth #2
Divine Descent Volume 2
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Expected 31 Mar 26Entführt in die Unterwelt ...
Ich hätte wissen müssen, dass es gefährlich ist, den Gott des Todes zu erzürnen. Kaum bin ich aus dem dunklen Labyrinth entkommen, werde ich an den nächsten gefährlichen Ort die Unterwelt. Ich habe nicht die geringste Absicht, freiwillig im Reich des Todes zu bleiben. Doch der Herr der Unterwelt macht mir ein verführerisches Angebot ...
Ich hätte wissen müssen, dass es gefährlich ist, den Gott des Todes zu erzürnen. Kaum bin ich aus dem dunklen Labyrinth entkommen, werde ich an den nächsten gefährlichen Ort die Unterwelt. Ich habe nicht die geringste Absicht, freiwillig im Reich des Todes zu bleiben. Doch der Herr der Unterwelt macht mir ein verführerisches Angebot ...
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Expected publication March 31, 2026
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June 10, 2025
im so excited for this book! i absolutely loved Exquisite Ruin and can not wait! The world building in this series is fantastic 👏 and the characters are terribly flawed in ways that make you love them. And that ending was everything 🔥. literally left me speechless.
November 16, 2025
I received a free copy from Gallery Books via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review. Release date March 31st, 2026.
I had read the first book in this series, which concluded the romance fairly decisively, so I was interested to see where the sequel would take the story. In Divine Descent, witch Sadare is living quietly with her lover Daesra--until the god of death comes to take Daesra for his crimes and Sadare trades herself away instead. Trapped in underworld and slowly losing her memories, Sadare must navigate Isha's convoluted sex games while Daesra battles his way through the underworld.
Divine Descent leaned more towards erotica than the previous book. Most of the action plot here is centered around control of Sadare, with a decidedly sexual charge. I'm solidly neutral on kinky BDSM romances (depends on the execution), and the relationship between Sadare and the god of the underworld mostly involved him force-feeding her during various sexual scenarios. Since every time Sadare ate, she lost more of her memories, this element was decidedly more horror-tinged and did not make me feel invested in their relationship. It's hard to get caught up in a romance when you're wishing that 33% of it would explode. Daesra is flawed but kind, but the god of death spends most of the novel attempting to possess Sadare like an object, and since the plot centers him...
Exquisite Ruin fluidly played with several different Greek myths, and Divine Descent repeats the pattern. Sadare and Daesra echo Eurydice and Orpheus, and Ariadne and Dionysus, although not fixed to any one myth. It's a deft mix of elements that doesn't leave the plot stuck retelling the stories we all already know. I enjoyed that the pantheon and magic system were both original to the novel. However, based on the few scenes set in the mortal world, I would be surprised if May did much research into the material reality of the ancient world. It's a lot more obvious now that the protagonist no longer has amnesia.
A romance novel about the most ineffective and fail way possible to attempt to pick up a couple. Pair with Tessa Gratton's The Mercy Makers and ST Gibson's Savage Blooms.
I had read the first book in this series, which concluded the romance fairly decisively, so I was interested to see where the sequel would take the story. In Divine Descent, witch Sadare is living quietly with her lover Daesra--until the god of death comes to take Daesra for his crimes and Sadare trades herself away instead. Trapped in underworld and slowly losing her memories, Sadare must navigate Isha's convoluted sex games while Daesra battles his way through the underworld.
Divine Descent leaned more towards erotica than the previous book. Most of the action plot here is centered around control of Sadare, with a decidedly sexual charge. I'm solidly neutral on kinky BDSM romances (depends on the execution), and the relationship between Sadare and the god of the underworld mostly involved him force-feeding her during various sexual scenarios. Since every time Sadare ate, she lost more of her memories, this element was decidedly more horror-tinged and did not make me feel invested in their relationship. It's hard to get caught up in a romance when you're wishing that 33% of it would explode. Daesra is flawed but kind, but the god of death spends most of the novel attempting to possess Sadare like an object, and since the plot centers him...
Exquisite Ruin fluidly played with several different Greek myths, and Divine Descent repeats the pattern. Sadare and Daesra echo Eurydice and Orpheus, and Ariadne and Dionysus, although not fixed to any one myth. It's a deft mix of elements that doesn't leave the plot stuck retelling the stories we all already know. I enjoyed that the pantheon and magic system were both original to the novel. However, based on the few scenes set in the mortal world, I would be surprised if May did much research into the material reality of the ancient world. It's a lot more obvious now that the protagonist no longer has amnesia.
A romance novel about the most ineffective and fail way possible to attempt to pick up a couple. Pair with Tessa Gratton's The Mercy Makers and ST Gibson's Savage Blooms.
August 18, 2025
I absolutely LOVED the first book in the series and I cannot wait for the second one!!! The MMC is one of my favorites for sure! so sad i have to wait till 2026!!! itll be worth it though
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