![]() ![]() ![]() Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, and she lives a sheltered and very happy life on earth, far from Olympus. But I also think it would appeal to those who like YA romance, or who are curious about mythological retellings or lesbian romances. It is tagged as “YA” in many places, including the author’s website, and there are things about it, such as the tone and style of the story telling – it is from Persephone’s first-person point of view, that cause me to agree with the YA tag. The Dark Wife is Sarah Diemer’s lesbian retelling of the Persephone myth. This book will sneak up on you, steal your loose change and run away with your afternoon if you let it. I was exhausted, but I didn’t want to stop reading. I woke up early the next morning to finish the book, because I had to find out what happened. The story moves so fast and the prose is so attentiongrabby that you’ll keep going and you’ll miss whatever it was you had to do. Be wary of picking it up if you only have a few minutes to read. Then I started reading the book and before I knew it, I was more than a third of the way into the book, it was nearly midnight, and my brain had no idea where the past two and a half hours had gone. The Dark Wife was recommended in the thread of f/f romance recommendations, and when I read the summary, I was really curious. Genre: LGBTQIA, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult ![]()
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