Neon Gods Review

 

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Summary: He was supposed to be a myth.
But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.
Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.
With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth... a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.
Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her—for a price. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…
A modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet.


Thoughts: It’s been a while since I’ve written a review of anything, but this book just sparked inspiration in me. Well, It Ends with Us did, but that’s a conversation for later. Neon Gods was brought to my attention through Tik Tok and Instagram. I’ve seen people talking about it for a while and during a trip to Books-A-Million
I thought it would be worth a shot.

Now, there are things about this book that I don’t necessarily like but not enough to take off a whole star. This book was fantastic, fun, and sexy don’t get me wrong…. But it also lacked something. I feel like the story was just filler for all the sex Persephone and Hades were having and it was a little disappointing how fast everything happened. I was hoping their story would continue in the next book… UNTIL I FOUND OUT THE NEXT BOOK ISN'T EVEN ABOUT THEM!!!! I was so upset! How is the book only going to be about a month-long fling and then after everything, finish with a happily ever after? It took so much away from the characters, they threw away all of their ambitions, all the rules gone, then suddenly everything’s okay? Look, I enjoyed this book thoroughly but COME ON!! I’m going to assume there will be more for them because that is bull.

Anyway, I should have expected the story to be lacking when the characters themselves were. Now I know a lot of people know the story of Hades and Persephone, but I do enjoy being led into the story and the characters and not being told “Yep here’s the crew.” I like the author to assume I know nothing about them and introduce the characters to me, ease me into the world they’ve built but I didn’t really feel that. I didn’t really care about the characters and honestly couldn’t really imagine what they would look like. There was no sense of danger, and I feel that I already knew how it would end.

I was easily able to overlook it since everything happened so quickly. About 130 pages in they were already doing the naked tango basically.

I’m going to be real. The main thing that attracted me to this is that ACOTAR is my favorite series, and they are similar in the sense that it’s a Beauty and the Beast story. I wouldn’t have read it if not. But then when we got down to the nitty-gritty of the characters, what little we did get, Hades was really giving Christian Grey. I personally was not feeling that at all. It pulled me out of the story and was just plain distracting. Persephone was giving every American blonde. It was BORING! But the smut really saved it.

That is the reason this is rated so highly. Occasionally, I love a good smutty story. I just wish the story had some meat. I liked it well enough though, to buy the next book Electric Idol, so we’ll see how that goes.

But anyway, that concludes this review. I’m still so rusty at this but stay tuned for more to come!!!!