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A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

5 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed Hades POV. Made Persephone a little better. Hecate and Hermes are my faves. They’re witty and funny and awesome. I do feel like Hades is a bit of a cornball and sometimes thinks of nothing but sex but overall enjoyable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, and War

margaret_k30's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual assault

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

allisonmspiers's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping

Just a note: it's hard for me to separate the triggering events in this book from those in "A Touch of Darkness," as I read them back to back. I may have listed some content warnings that are more applicable to "A Touch of Darkness" than to this book from Hades' POV, so I'm sorry if this is the case! Most of the important events are the same, however, so I think that most warnings from "A Touch of Darkness" would make this list nonetheless.

katiemack's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This is the most I've enjoyed a Scarlett St. Clair book. Even though it's just Hades' POV of A Touch of Darkness, I found brooding, overpowered, horny Hades far more entertaining and far less annoying than Persephone; his relationships and interactions with mortals and his fellow gods are also more intriguing here. Still not much plot, but no one is reading (or, in my case, listening to) this for the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use