It hasn't entirely worked but she does acknowledge that sexism cuts both ways and those who inherit a corrupt system are also its victims.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Beautifully written, utterly glorious, and fabulously powerful, this is a definite must-read that should be at the top of everyone's TBR pile! She voices this on multiple occasion, takes offence at the slightest implication, at the first chance a man even looks in her direction - but then! Instead, it all happens so swiftly - her moving in and changing the place - it felt unbelievable and quite rude.

I can't say enough how much I love this book, I tabbed so many quotes and moments which I want to relive daily. This fierce and funny feminist take on a classic story weaves seamlessly from rage to romance and is an absolute joy! Ergo three stars because it was mostly quite readable and I'm not really the target audience for a lot of YA fantasy anymore. Now all she has to do is convince the Underworld's annoyingly sexy, arrogant and frankly rude ruler, Hades, to fall in line with her plan. All fans of Greek mythology, originals and retelling, experience the patriarchal and misogynistic frustration of these men and their rule.

The King of the Underworld is nothing like Persephone expected, and everything that she’d hoped he’d be too. So Persephone needs to get married because apparently that's all that matters to gods (why have we gone down this road?