mathildur's reviews
1055 reviews

This was cute! I was a bit thrown off at times due to the writing, I feel like the book could have been edited a bit more. I caught several grammatical errors, even your/you're, and they always influence my reading experience negatively. However, I found the story entertaining and the romance was sweet. The smut was not quite to my liking, but I really enjoyed the dynamic between Davina and Mendax. The pacing of the story also threw me off a bit, seeing as it takes place over several years with several large time skips. All in all enjoyable, but not a new favorite.

Likte denne kjempegodt! Boka inneholder en haug med spesifikke tips og råd, samtidig som den setter sløsesamfunnet Norge på dagsordenen og slår et slag for at vi må få til endringer. Veldig passende, siden jeg nettopp har hatt fullt bærekraftsfokus på jobb (som lærer) og har undervist om bærekraft en hel uke. Ble inspirert av boka og noterte meg flere ting og steder jeg skal sjekke ut! Anbefales. 

This was really cool! I loved the magic system, even though it was a bit confusing to get into at first. The world-building was also really interesting. Excited to read the next one! 

I wish I had read this for a uni course, so I could have properly dissected it with a bunch of other readers. However, I am a huge fan of Plath's poetry, in part due to the way she writes about mental health, marriage and the experience of womanhood. Naturally, I ended up liking this book as well, which deals with so much of the same! If you have ever found yourself in a bell jar, this book will resonate with you. Be warned though, this book (or at least its main character) is racist and uses racist language, so keep that in mind before reading it. 

This was... not great. Already after the first chapter I knew the writing style was not my cup of tea. The romance was not hitting, the relationship between the fmc and her sister was horrible??, the smut was not smutting (it was kind of disgusting at times lol), and the plot was both chaotic and kinda boring. The only thing I liked about this was the Christmas part, especially with the great-aunt and the whole focus on family during the holiday season. Then, the idiotic third act breakup towards the end was the final nail in the coffin for me. I was enteratined enough to read through it, but it is not a book I would recommend.

I  am going to have to reread this at some point, because wow. This novel is a meditation on life, art, and how they are connected, at least to me. This is one of those books that should be on everyone's life-TBR, it truly deserves to be read. It is a brick, that much is true, but it is fantastically written. I have a strong feeling that once I get around to rereading this, it will be a full five stars from me, but for now I am keeping it at a four, since I struggled with it a bit every now and then, and because I do not fully "get it" quite yet. 

Short but powerful.

The E-Arc of Seeds was kindly provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This has not altered my opinion of the book. 

I feel like I need to start this review with a disclaimer: while this is a story with romance at its core (the one between Hades and Persephone), it is not a romance book. I was expecting a romance book, which put me off at the beginning of the story.

What this really is, is a more truthful rendition of Persephone’s story based on the original myths, with its own original spin of course. Persephone’s story begins with her life as a mortal girl, living with her abusive mother, in a village where everyone shies away from her. We follow her through her abduction at Hades’ hands, witnessing the beginning of her life in the underworld, where she is desperately trying to escape. At the same time, we follow Demeter in the upper world, where she is desperately trying to get her daughter back.

Once I got over my mistaken expectations of this being a straight-forward romance book, I could enjoy it for what it really is. The story is, at its heart, a story of a complex mother-daughter relationship between a Goddess turned resentful mortal and her daughter. At the same time, it is a story of two lonely and lost souls finding each other, and finding love. I loved this story! I think Paxton did a fantastic job of portraying the Greek Gods, with their distaste for mortality and their obsession with power. I also appreciated how Paxton stuck close to the original myth, with Hades’ abduction and his early actions.

All in all, I would wholeheartedly recommend this to mythology lovers! This book will add a new layer to the myth of Persephone, especially if you have only explored romantic retellings so far. Definitely give this one a chance! 

I honestly really enjoyed this... small spoiler, nothing specific mentioned:

...despite Thane's mistreatment of Catalina during the first part of the book (which in my opinion was never done with malice, but rather due to ignorance for the most part, and an inability to consider others due to personal trauma)

. I do think the book bit off more than it could chew, trying to deal with both Catalina's trauma and self-image, and Thane's trauma at the same time, within less than 200 pages. But all in all, I liked the story! I found their relationship sweet as it progressed, the smut was smutting, and I read the book in one sitting (kinda by accident), so the drive of the story was also good. Definitely need to get my hands on the rest of the series now! 

This was insane! Leave it to Kimberly Lemming to write Krampus smut that is so entertaining it had me laughing out loud. It was toeing the line of being too silly, but it stayed on the right side of it for me. I loved this.