Em McClintock > Recent Status Updates

Okay, so here's the other thing I realized about this book in comparison to the first one: there's less getting in their own way. Like you know that thing that characters do where they have a whole argument in their head and just don't talk to the other person involved in the conflict/ dynamic? The first book had a lot of that where it was just misinterpretation on misinterpretation on not talking to each other....

I'm enjoying this one much more than the first one. I'm not sure if that's because I already knew the tail of Persephone and Hades and so there was more to stack up against a retelling or if the vibes and chemistry of Psyche and Eros are just... more interesting (?)

I'm genuinely not even mad that there's only been one sex scene in this 170 pages, whereas in the first one I was actively waiting for those sex scenes.

Obviously I'm not done with this book yet, but I've found myself already thinking about what I would write in a review. I'm enjoying this book immensely, but thinking about the reviews I read for this book and for the original, I think that people may have missed what the books are actually about. I think people got caught up in the mystery, the 'what's happening' of the story, the twists promised at the end, ...

So I'm enjoying this book but I'm also surprised that I'm not even half way through. This seems to be a book with a very slow pace even as the action is clearly happening. Yet none of the reviews Ive read talk about this so maybe it's just me? Idk. I'm still going though.