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Neon Gods
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2021-06-01
- Rating
- ★ 3.5 · 397 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Persephone Dimitriou flees a forced engagement to Zeus arranged by her mother, seeking escape from the cutthroat politics of Olympus's Thirteen Houses. She crosses into the forbidden undercity, where she strikes a devil's bargain with Hades—a shadowy figure she once thought was merely a myth. Hades, motivated by years of craving revenge, agrees to help her in exchange for a price. What begins as a transactional arrangement becomes something far more consuming as the two spend nights tangled together, with Hades becoming increasingly determined to keep Persephone close, even if it means waging war against Olympus itself. Set in an ultra-modern Olympus, this modern Hades and Persephone retelling blends dark romance with Greek mythology in an urban fantasy world of Thirteen Houses, forbidden undercities, and a dangerous Zeus lurking behind a glittering facade.
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- Arranged Marriage: “her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus” source
- Forbidden Love: “Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil's bargain” source
- Revenge Plot: “a little slice of the revenge he's spent years craving” source
- Morally Gray: “a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. Hades has spent his life in the shadows” source
- Tortured Hero: “Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he's spent years craving” source
- Forced Proximity: “every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone” source
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