5/5 🌟 3.5/5 🔥
"I think you need a different kind of daddy to teach you manners, sweetheart."
This book starts off with a bang. Literally. HOT. Persephone (18) just lost her parents. Her adopted Uncle, Hades, comes to her rescue (even though he hated her father). He's intense, scary, possessive, and controlling but DAMN I fell in love with him! He's so dark and depraved in this retelling.
I stared down at my knuckles. My dark thoughts went to how my little Persephone would look with that virgin blood smeared across her inner thighs after I popped her cherry.
There's bad blood between her father and Hades. He's out for revenge against her father by using her. The history is hinted at as you read but I won't spoil it!
I hated my brother and had celebrated his death. And a part of me wanted to hate her too, for the simple fact she was a part of Zachariah. It didn't matter that she was innocent. It didn't matter if she didn't know who her father really was or the atrocious things he'd done.
Because she would pay for her father's sins.
With her body.
While Hades is dark and pretty much a psycho in this book, Persephone is the definition of innocence. Pure innocence waiting to be corrupted! ;)
"I'm taking your virginity tonight, little Persephone. I'm going to fuck you until my cock is slick and wet with your orgasms and blood."
I whimpered.
"This won't be the sweet, soft lovemaking you've envisioned for your first time."
"...Once my cock is deep inside this tight body, no one else will have you. You're mine."
They are literal fire together.
I'd wanted to use her, ruin her for anyone else. I wanted her to cling to me, like I was the air in her lungs and the blood in her veins. All I'd been able to think about was leaving her cold, broken-hearted, and penniless. And I hasn't planned on looking back. But now... now none of that made sense.
I really, really enjoyed this book. Five stars.
SAFETY:
Characters: Persephone and Hades
Ages: 18h, unknown H
OM/OW?: veeery light OM, no OW!
Virgin, celibate, manwhore?: virgin heroine,
Tropes: Hades/Persephone retelling, guardian/ward, adoptive uncle, age gap, forbidden love
Kinks: degradation/praise, breeding, daddy kink, spanking, knife play, bloodplay, kitty spanking,
Triggers: attempted SA of heroine (not by Hero), abuse of hero as a child/flashbacks, on page murder, assault, and violence
HEA?: Yes!
Pages: 324
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