I'm wondering why I did not DNF this. That's totally on me. Wasted my time and energy. It fails to occur to me how someone could take characters from mythology who are already fleshed out, and make them completely boring, bland and soulless (no pun indented). The story was extremely slow paced. The characters, even though thousands of years old felt extremely childish and were lacking personality. The dialogues between everyone were so cringe, were so uncomfortable, so unnatural that it was hard for me to keep up with it without feeling completely awkward. I love Hades and Persephone retellings and this was such a huge miss. The only reason that kept me going was the familiar characters but they were so badly written that I came to dislike them. Mythological characters that I absolutely adore. This book drove me to the point that I absolutely despised them. It was entirely my fault that I did not DNF this. I have to read something else so that the sense I got from this book fades. Please save your time and energy.