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A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

172 reviews

soybeanthefrogqueen's review against another edition

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Please…. Editing is so important … it felt like reading a wattpad post.

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annick's review against another edition

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adventurous dark hopeful mysterious slow-paced

1.75

I’m so disappointed with this. It was a struggle to finish. The audiobook was slow and I couldn’t speed it up with my old software this week.

The story has such promise. And I was drawn in by the many many glowing reviews.

Spicy scenes don’t come until 60-70%.

Even though she’s a goddess of unknown age it is baffling how teen and rash she is and behaves. I also disliked the excessive use of superlatives for what characters would never do to the other ( never tire of looking at his body)

The journalism was poor in resembling what actually happens for editing front page articles and investigative journalism. This ain’t it.

If I read the next books it will be as ebooks so o can skim tedious sections about fashion and hair and misperceptions.

I don’t think the female characters are well written - as far as I can tell it doesn’t pass bechdal test. And the 2d characterisations of secondary characters are like below average fan fic

I’d rather hang out with Hecate.

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vaguely_pink's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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melaniesmolter's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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mari_books's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Light read and modern retelling of Greek mythology. Action packed in lots of ways…Persephone’s character felt a little thin to me at times but I know it’s a series so that might change.

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wordswithkay's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

Such a good comforting read. Fits into the already well established world of Greek mythology fiction/romance. I loved this Re-imagining. At times I felt Persephone fell into a few annoying tropes but overall it was a fast, engaging read and I look forward to the rest of the series!

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