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  • A Touch of Ruin

  • Hades & Persephone, Book 2
  • By: Scarlett St. Clair
  • Narrated by: Meg Sylvan
  • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (195 ratings)
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A Touch of Ruin

By: Scarlett St. Clair
Narrated by: Meg Sylvan
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Summary

Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public, and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring.

Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone's eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away.

Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone's heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains with severe consequences.

Faced with a side of Hades she never knew and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades' queen.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Scarlett St. Clair (P)2020 Tantor

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Meh, I totally agree with some of the other review

I really loved the first book, so wasn't really put off by the poor reviews. I didn't feel as strongly as some, and think its good enough to past time on a commute, but the plot was a bit disappointing. Persephone does seem to go running to Hecate every other chapter, and she is a little intolerable (but not enough to make me stop listening).

One of the main plot lines took me by surprise. It just felt so random and I feel it will ruin the third book...if you listen you will get what I'm talking about.

One thing I did love was Hermes, his character is fantastic and really shines in this book.

One bug bear, and I don't know where the blame lies, but the driver Anthony changes between a cyclops and ogre in every other chapter. Its just annoying that this detail wasn't picked up. There were a few other little mistakes as well.

Overall I liked it enough that I will look forward to the final book.

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Not as good as the first one

Characters did not develop and a lot of red flags. The FML seems very bratty and impulsive and didn't do any work to overcome trauma. Disappointed.

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Great performance, great book

make sure you have the time for this books, because it was hard to pause because I always wanted to hear what came next. I am becoming very attached to the characters, and loved all their archs.

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Not as good as book 1


I enjoyed the first book so i was excited to read this one, but so many points I found myself wanting to throttle Persephone. I usually enjoy strong willed female characters, but she acted completely petulantly throughout most of this book.
She ignores the wishes of her friends purely because she wants to do something. Like, I understand doing what you think is right but she really needs to think about how it might affect other people before doing it!
She gets stupidly angry at Hades for having had lovers before her which is really unfair, when he’s millions of years old and she’s a child. And then also gets angry at him for “keeping secrets” that don’t really have anything to do with her, when she also keeps secrets, but hers directly affect him!
I also understand wanting to be strong and independent, especially as a young girl who has been controlled a lot of her life, but she doesn’t seem to understand that accepting help is not the same as running and hiding. I’ll give her a bit of a break on that one because of how she grew up, it probably wouldn’t come naturally to her, but she could at least consider help.
She seems to take a whole step back from book one to this one.
Also, there was a bit at the end that seemed to be tacked on randomly just cuz? Like, it added nothing in my opinion. Maybe it’ll be expanded on in the next book but it really, really didn’t need to be added in, it began and then was over so quickly. If given more chance it could’ve been a very interesting part to the story but unfortunately it fell flat.
Random nitpick but is Anthony a Cyclops or an Ogre??

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Such a load of drivel

What was the actual storyline in this book? Such an awful listen I couldn’t wait to finish it!

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Hades and Persephone Book 📚 2

Love love love this Book 2 of the Hades and Persephone Series. Fantastic, enchanting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of emotions, loving, and last but not least I was unable to stop listening. Starting Book 📖 3 now ❤️😍📚📖❤️

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Filler story with some plot errors

I liked the book but so much smut on every chapter it felt like. I couldn’t help find the lack of total communication so frustrating. Mainly though there were some errors. One moment Hades’ driver was a cyclops and then an ogre. At one point the narrator reads “Persephone couldn’t imagine a world without Persephone”. A small mistake because you knew was it was meant to be I guess

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Loved it

Love this book and story line.I could not put it down. Easy to read, thank you

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Love it

I a lovely story and easier to listen too.
Would recommend to anyone looking for an easier read.

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Great!

it was a great book I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

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