Jerry Cooke<p>34th finished book of the year: A Game of Fateby Scarlet St. Clair
</p><p>3.75 ⭐️ - A duplicate of the first book in the series, but from Hade’s perspective - with just enough new detail to keep things interesting. </p><p>I wasn’t sure whether to read this book, the first in the parallel ‘Hades Saga’ that goes alongside the Persephone POV books in this alternate universe fantasy series, because I didn’t really think much could be added that wasn’t already in the first book. I’m also just not a fan, in general, of the idea of releasing the same book again but from a different perspective - if you want to do that, just make it a dual perspective book, eh?
</p><p>All that said, while at least 50% of the book feels to be just the same scenes from the first book re-written, the other half adds a good amount of new insight into the world being built. Persephone’s experience of the other gods is understandably limited and so getting the snippets of information that Hade’s history provides does add enough extra value here to make the book worth reading. In particularly, I enjoyed the extra Hecate content - a character who is already my favourite!
</p><p>A word on the spice level of this: if the horniness of the two characters was high in the first book, seeing it through Hade’s eyes makes it exponentially hornier. He very rarely seems to be thinking anything other than touching Persephone and, honestly, as much as I like spice, this felt like almost too much unnecessary smut. I would go as far to say that it felt as if there at least as much pages devoted to that as anything else. </p><p>
Still, it was enjoyable, even if I did skim over some near identical parts. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/agameoffate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agameoffate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/scarlettestclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scarlettestclair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/hadesxpersephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hadesxpersephone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/hades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hades</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/persephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>persephone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/greekgods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greekgods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jhcooke.com/tags/romantasybooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romantasybooks</span></a>
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