Persephone has been sent to the human world without her memories for some reason and Zeus being the dick he is kidnaps her to compete in the ‘Hades Trials’ which is a competition to win Hades hand in marriage and more importantly for the rest of the contestants true immortality. Persephone has to navigate Hades realm as a mortal, hijinks issue, Hades pines, Persephone slowly re-falls in love with Hades. Clearly I am a slut for Greek mythology so this was obviously my shit. Things I loved about this series – Zeus is a huge dick and the gods are all kind of capricious assholes, the story is really fun and balanced Persephone being a mortal with a mortal perspective with slowly coming to terms with her godliness or whatever you want to call it. I will say while I enjoyed the book a lot the general trend of Persephone/ Hades as oh it was always super romantic the whole time is hugely problematic when it is accepted as fact or positioned as if there is a basis in history for it, I like it as a fun modern story but that trend is super problematic. Ignoring the rabbit hole of original sources this was a very fun read, the story is engaging and well paced for it spanning 600+ pages, the sex was good and contributed to the plot and didn’t feel like it belonged in a different book, the ending is well done and feels like it was earned.