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A review by asunnyreadingcorner
The Death Hunting by Emma Steinbrecher
4.0
I was gifted an ARC of this book.
I may have messed up while reading this. Sometimes I have a habit of accidentally reading the same trope a few times in a row and I split reading this book into two sittings and in-between those sittings I read another Persephone/Hades retelling. That is not the way to read this book and I would not recommend doing that because you will confuse yourself on which god of death is which.
With that probably irrelevant, because most people are not dumb enough to do that, warning out of the way… I love a Persephone/Hades retelling. This is an urban fantasy and a fairly loose retelling. It has a decent mystery element to it as you unwind about who different characters are and the role they play. It took me a little bit to get into the book, but once I got my feet under what was happening I sped through the last half of the book.
The story follows Morana, our main character who manages to evade death in the first few chapters. She is a badass MC who has a fair amount of trauma that she works through in the book. She meets Matthias, our hot death god who takes her to the underworld with him. As the book unfolds Morana's powers develop and we have some great interactions with side characters (the whole book can't be sexual tension between our two main characters).
The vibes of this book are fun if not a little dark at times. While there isn't anything I would call graphic in the book it is worth checking out the CWs before reading it.
I may have messed up while reading this. Sometimes I have a habit of accidentally reading the same trope a few times in a row and I split reading this book into two sittings and in-between those sittings I read another Persephone/Hades retelling. That is not the way to read this book and I would not recommend doing that because you will confuse yourself on which god of death is which.
With that probably irrelevant, because most people are not dumb enough to do that, warning out of the way… I love a Persephone/Hades retelling. This is an urban fantasy and a fairly loose retelling. It has a decent mystery element to it as you unwind about who different characters are and the role they play. It took me a little bit to get into the book, but once I got my feet under what was happening I sped through the last half of the book.
The story follows Morana, our main character who manages to evade death in the first few chapters. She is a badass MC who has a fair amount of trauma that she works through in the book. She meets Matthias, our hot death god who takes her to the underworld with him. As the book unfolds Morana's powers develop and we have some great interactions with side characters (the whole book can't be sexual tension between our two main characters).
The vibes of this book are fun if not a little dark at times. While there isn't anything I would call graphic in the book it is worth checking out the CWs before reading it.