Is this a myth retelling or just 50 shades of grey fanfic? Powerful dude whose parents died, causing him trauma and literal scars, red room of pain, weird BDSM but clearly not stuff. So much of the dynamic and a number of the scenes are very similar to 50 shades, which is truly not a compliment.

I didn’t mind the whole, Hades is clearly too perfect in every way and their relationship had no inner conflict whatsoever thing that other people objected to. The criticisms are valid but sometimes you want to read fluff, and that’s okay. What I did mind was the confusing and lackluster world building. Nothing about this version of Olympus is explained or makes any sense.