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A Touch of Ruin (Hades X Persephone Book 2) by [Scarlett St. Clair]

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The second in the captivating Hades and Persephone series from fan-favorite bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair.

"Are you saying you wouldn't fight for me?"

Hades sighed and brushed his finger along her cheek. "Darling, I would burn this world for you."

Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. To add to her troubles, everyone seems eager to warn Persephone away from the God of the Dead by exposing his hellish past.

Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone's heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains that lead to severe consequences. Faced with a side of Hades she never knew, and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades's queen.

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“You are my weakness, losing you is my greatest fear, and your love is my most treasured possession.”
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Hades sighed and brushed his finger along her cheek. "Darling, I would burn this world for you."


	A Touch of Darkness	A Touch of Ruin	A Touch of Malice	A Game of Fate	A Game of Retribution	King of Battle and Blood
	Discover the world of New Greece in the first book of Scarlett St. Clair’s bestselling Hades x Persephone series, a dark and sexy reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth.	Scarlett St. Clair’s sexy and addictive series continues in Hades x Persephone book 2. Persephone’s relationship with Hades is now in the public eye, but a horrible tragedy leaves her more confused than ever about her future as Hades’s queen.	The third installment in the Hades and Persephone story from bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. Discover the world of New Athens and the Greek gods in a series that readers are calling “hopelessly addictive.”	Discover the enthralling fantasy world of gods and mortals in bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair’s reimagined New Greece through the eyes of the God of the Underworld, Hades, as he begins to fall in love with his future queen.	Book 2 in the Hades Saga. Experience the addictive Greek myth retelling through the eyes of the God of the Underworld, Hades, as he tries to balance the demands of his position while maintaining his relationship with Persephone.	The first in a new epic fantasy series. To end a years-long war between vampires & mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian. But surviving the vampire court doesn’t prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting her intense attraction to him.

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Scarlett St. Clair lives in Oklahoma with her husband. She has a master's degree in library science and information studies. She is obsessed with Greek mythology, murder mysteries, love, and the afterlife. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09D8Q2D9L
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloom Books (April 23, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 23, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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USA Today Bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of the HADES X PERSEPHONE SAGA, the HADES SAGA, KING OF BATTLE & BLOOD, and WHEN STARS COME OUT.

She has a Master's degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. She is obsessed with Greek Mythology, murder mysteries, and the afterlife.

If you are obsessed with these things, then you'll like her books. You can find pictures of her adorable dog Adelaide on her Instagram at @authorscarlettstclair.

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Maryann Troche

Consequences that deliver lessons!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023

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Book two is another phenomenal story that continues the journey of Hades and Persephone. I can’t describe enough how much I’m loving this series. As I said before, I love mythology and the journey of Hades and Persephone includes so many other gods and goddesses as well. The stories are never ending excitement! The smut, by the way, between Hades and Persephone is very 🔥 HOT, read those moments at your own risk. 🤣 phew!

With book two, the attention focuses on Persephone; however, Hades and many other gods, goddesses, and mortals are involved with her. Due to the way her controlling mother, Demeter, raised her, it has caused Persephone to be stubborn and go against decisions that are best followed for everyone involved because she thinks she knows a better way - which is her way. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Persephone makes rash decisions that were nerve wracking to me as a reader because I knew there was a consequence coming that wouldn’t be good and could’ve been avoided if only Persephone stopped wanting everything her way.

Persephone, learns the hard way, which entails facing all those consequences due to her actions. The greatest lesson she discovers she can’t ignore is being true to herself and to quit worrying about what everyone else is thinking and doing around her. She also learns that everyone has an internal story that is sometimes so traumatic, it causes the behaviors of others because it’s a way of numbing that pain. With that knowledge, Persephone uses kindness and empathy to help others realize a deeper sense of belonging that wins over being mean and self-centered which in turn becomes her lesson as well.

Onto book three with the journey of Hades and Persephone continuing in the mortal world as well as theirs. Have I told you how much I love this series!!! 😉

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Keke

The Road to H*ll Is Paved with Good Intentions...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2023

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SPOILERS AHEAD.

I'll start off by saying that I've always hoped to have a friend like Persephone: a friend who's so loving and relentlessly loyal that she/he is literally willing to defy fate for you. The grief and trauma of losing her best friend, the idea of having to live without her driving Persephone to such extremes truly moved me; it is not often in these types of romance books where the FMC goes above and beyond for someone who is not her love interest, which I found super refreshing. We need more people like that in real life, not a society that teaches girls to only value the love of a man: what about sisterhood? Friendships? Parents? It is not only Juliet dying for Romeo that can be interesting. Still, I was FURIOUS for Persephone's overstepping in Lexa's death: why was she that stubborn, refusing to listen to Hades when he warned her? She caused Lexa so much extra, unnecessary pain that she didn't need to go thru! Yes, it was done out of love but it was also supremely selfish and p*ssed me off.

Which leads me to the rift between her & Hades, which I almost thought they wouldn't recover from. They both screwed up, they both should be sorry but Persephone's downward spiral just seemed very unnecessary to me. Like why did she put up with such a miserable job, Demetri's BS? Lexa had to die just so Persephone could finally use her common sense and QUIT? I was praying her to quit the moment her boss gave her that absurd ultimatum in the start of the book. She just caused herself alot of needless suffering for situations in her life that most people wouldn't have put up with. Her growing pains in the book were obviously necessary, they served a purpose to make her a more stable, well rounded person: I was glad this book just wasn't full of a bunch of syrupy romance but it was hard to see the way she shut Hades out like that. Just open your mouth and tell the man what you feel: simple.

Besides that, I liked the bigger focus on other gods like Apollo, who I hope we see more of: he's hilarious but also twisted, which I like. The plot flowed better than book one, there was great character building for everyone involved. St. Clair's quickly becoming my new fav writer, looking forward to ATOM.

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Haylibean

another fun ride

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023

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So this one was enjoyable, though chaotic at times. It had its sad moments, and somethings seemed like they would go further then they did. Without giving anything away, I feel that some aspects could have flowed a bit better.
But overall, it was a good read and I will dive into the next one shortly!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2023

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I loved Touch of Darkness as I listened to the audiobook and immediately became engaged with all of the characters and gorgeous writing, but when I tell you this book made me WEEP. I don’t know if the author has personally dealt with the loss of a close friend, but the emotion that was poured into these characters had me hooked. If anyone writes this series off as “smut” I will be first in line to discredit that claim.

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These stories are such an amazing read!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2023

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The story line is enchanting and sucks you In immediately! This series has honestly moved me so far. I’m going to finish this series and when I do I can’t wait to finish the books from hades perspective after. Both have different versions with a different plot but the same parts where they meet. This has been one of my favorite series so far! I would recommend these books to anyone who loves smut/spice/mythology story line!

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Sianny banany

Frustrating but still good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 26, 2021

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Persephone and Hades’ relationship has gone public and she is now being mobbed on the daily. Everyone is curious about the woman that the notoriously private God of the Underworld has chosen for his lover. And everyone is curious about their relationship.

Persephone is under a lot of stress, her mother is angry, the paper where she works wants an exclusive on her relationship, Hades’ ex has shown up out of nowhere, she’s struggling to control her new powers. Will she ever catch a break?

Oh Persephone…she frustrated me to no end in this book. Honestly I spent about 90% of it wanting to shake her and shout at her! Why can’t she just LISTEN! When more than one person that she trusts and cares for is telling her the same thing but instead she believes the words of a stranger, enemy, or her own messed up emotional turmoil. So.much.facepalming.

Hades didn’t help certain situations by refusing to tell her things or expand on his reasons. But for the most part he was incredibly understanding. Even when she kept making things exponentially worse for everyone.

There were points where their relationship just started to feel a bit toxic, and yet I was still rooting for them to get their crap together.

I loved the depth to the side characters, how they’re mostly weren’t just portrayed as one dimensional bad/good guys but had layers, like everyone in life does.

I still very much enjoyed the book but Persephone’s idiocy and stubbornness was just a bit too frustrating for me so did take away from my overall enjoyment. Here’s hoping she’s grown up for book 3!

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tabassum

Brilliant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2020

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My goodness is all I can say.

While the first book was definitely a romance, I felt like aA Touch of Ruin really evolved in to something more. It became this journey of self-discovery for Persephone whilst she figured out who she is, both as Hades’ lover and as herself.

There were 3 major arcs for this:

Arc 1: the underworld. Through which Persephone really began to understand how Hades’ domain works.

Arc 2: Apollo which explored some of my favourite myths and served inadvertently to teach Persephone about consequences.

Arc 3: which tied the whole book together: Demeter, which I don’t wanna expand on Cos spoilers.

I loved this book from begging to end and can’t wait for A touch of Malice!

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purpleskye

A good read, but not as good as the first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2020

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I really wanted to enjoy this book but I just didn’t like it as much as the first one. I just felt that the plot was far too contrived and characters were never really utilised fully and were simply there to drive the plot forward by creating an obstacle. I felt everything was just so obvious and blatant where as more subtlety would have worked better. The entirety of the plot was that Hades and Persephone argue and then have sex. And that is repeated over and over and over again. Had it been revealed that Demeter was orchestrating everything to drive a wedge between Hades and Persephone then it would have been more effective and tied in better with the first book. All we had was Demeter awoke Leuce and then Leuce drugged Persephone in a plot that was resolved very quickly. Leuce was just too nice. Had she been manipulating Persephone and sowing seeds of doubt when Persephone thought they were friends then it would have been more subtly done. Had Demeter been releasing information to the press or again deliberately driving a wedge between the couple then it would have been more interesting to read.

I found Persephone to be quite unlikable in this book. She is selfish, petulant, self obsessed, self righteous, hypocritical and blames everyone around her for things that aren’t their fault taking no responsibility for her own actions.

She moans constantly about the gods and their treatment of mortals. She fights against their injustice yet doesn’t stand up to her own employer when they attempt to manipulate and exploit her. She says all the time that it’s up to her to expose injustice. Why? She’s the goddess of spring, not the goddess of justice. There’s no reason for her to literally stick her nose into every issue that is nothing to do with her. She judges Apollo for his actions yet has no issues with Hades turning his ex into a tree for 2000 years. She has no problem with Hades torturing people because of what they did to her. In fact she even encourages him and wants to participate in it. It’s just so hypocritical that I can’t support her in any of her actions.

She says that she doesn’t want people to treat her different because she is with Hades. She doesn’t want Hades to fight her battles for her, yet she says she will go up against Apollo because he won’t touch her as she belongs to Hades. It’s complete double standards and doesn’t make sense.

She’s upset when people write about her private life yet when her friend Sybil asks her not to write about what Apollo did to her, she does it anyway. Even Hades asks her not to do it but again she knows best so does what she wants without actually listening to or respecting those around her.

Speaking of which she immediately judges Apollo and decides that she needs to expose him. Did she learn nothing from book 1 when she made the same assumptions about Hades and was proved to be incredibly wrong?

After being determined to keep her life with Hades private, she is willingly going to sell information about their life together first to keep her job and then in order to save her friend. She then gets mad at Hades for interfering which then leads to an incredibly bizarre proposal. They haven’t had one conversation in this book that hasn’t been an argument yet Hades proposes. It doesn’t make any sense at that point in the story.

She acts like a complete child, feeling jealous because Hades who has been alive for a long time has had past relationships. She is jealous of even the idea of him being with someone before her. She hates that his ex Leuce has returned and regularly berates Hades because of this and uses it as a reason not to trust him, yet at one points invites Leuce to live with her and then employs her. If she was so threatened by this woman, if she can’t handle the reminder of this woman being with Hades then stop inviting her into your life.

Her friend is dying in hospital yet Persephone still carries on with normal life and goes partying.

She is determined to save Lexa from death yet she spends a lot of time in the underworld. She’s actively trying to get people to see the underworld as something not to be feared yet actively stops her friend from having a peaceful death because of her own fears of death when she’s the one fighting against this in the first place. She could have gone to see Lexa in the underworld to talk to her, she could have talked to Hades at any point to find out what was actually happening.

She is annoyed at Hades for literally everything he does. She’s annoyed that she doesn’t know about his new charity despite the fact that she broke up with him and has been back with him for only 2 days yet is annoyed with him because of something that she doesn’t know and hasn’t asked about. She quite frankly acts like a spoiled child and I’m surprised Hades puts up with her behaviour never mind repeatedly proposing.

I do enjoy the premise and I enjoy the character of Hades, but I think the plot needed to be thought through in a lot more detail. It was as if the author was determined to have them argue as often as possible and was making it up as she went, thinking what can they argue about now. It seemed like lots of plots chucked together instead of working them together seamlessly or exploring them fully. Building up to them, in a satisfying way. For example we have the character Pirithous who is introduced fairly early on who turns out to be a stalker obsessed with Persephone. I appreciate trying to tie in the original myth, but it seemed like an afterthought that serves no purpose to the wider themes of the book. She has two, maybe three brief conversations with him. Persephone recurved some gifts including a rose but isn’t bothered by them and never mentions them again. Then at the end when the main story seems done we have a kidnapping chapter out of no where. Had this character been utilised more effectively, if he had deliberately tried to split Hades and Persephone up like he wants, if he had been a confidant to Persephone, a new friend that Hades feel threatened by then I could understand the point of including him, but his absence wouldn’t have affected the main plot so he serves no purpose.
I’ve given this story 3 stars but I should really be a 2.5.

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Iza

So many feels

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 10, 2020

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There's always a good side and a bad side to finding an amazing book. The good, well, another favorite book to add to your list, and the bad... you finish it and then what?

After inhaling book one, I immediately started book two, but tried to read it at a slower pace. You know, savor it. The author took Hades' and Persephone's relationship to a whole new level, making this change gradually, in the best possible way. Not too fast, not too slow. It simply happened naturally. Yes, we have some drama and tension - these two are at the beginning of their relationship, plus others are sticking their noses into their business, so it's bound to break your heart, just a little bit.

Because yes, this one has much more feels and, as a matter of fact, my favorite scene from both books is in this one. I'll only say one word: Forest. Well, okay, here's another hint: Underworld. The author wrote that scene so damn well, it was so powerful.

I truly love how real these characters and dynamic between them feels. Hades' & Persephone's relationship; Hades & Hecate - siblings and BFFs; Persephone & Hecate; Hermes, Apollo etc. You kind of want to hang out with them, you know? Become bosom buddies with them.

Anyway, the wait for book three will kill me, I'll for sure reread both books, until then. 5 stars.

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The Hades and Persephone Retelling I Never Knew I Needed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2021

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After finishing A Touch of Darkness, I couldn’t help but dive straight in to the second Hades and Persephone book. I’ve always been such a huge lover of this myth and I was blown away by the first book and I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next. I didn’t love A Touch of Ruin quite as much as I did the first book but I still completely devoured it and couldn’t put it down.

A Touch of Ruin is angst personified. I was not expecting it to be quite as angsty as it was but I absolutely loved it. There was a lot of things that happened in this book that brought all of the drama… and I was so here for it. I fell even more in love with Hades throughout this book. He is just so incredible and perfect and I just completely obsessed over him through this book.

Honestly, Persephone irritated the life out of me in this one. I still love her but some of her actions? Man, I was practically yelling at the book to tell her to stop being so stupid. She was acting ridiculous, selfish and immature and that irritated me. I just kept being all like ‘well if you’d just listened to Hades in the first place you wouldn’t be in this position’. However… we did get to see her be remorseful and grow and develop as a character more and that growth was super important.

I am completely and utterly in love with this series. This is the Hades and Persephone retelling I never knew I needed. I cannot wait to get my hands on the third book in this series. If you’re a fan of Greek Mythology and the Hades/Persephone myth, this one is a must-read.

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