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Obs- you came to my place, decided that you will be living here without me agreeing I am not planning to be nice to you, but later they sorted that out and I enjoyed how their story.
This book cleverly gives a contemporary feel on the low-down without shredding today's vocab into the mix and still keeping a historical Greek mythology feel. I seem to be in the minority with this review but I didn’t really enjoy this book and I at times, found it quite dull. This fierce and funny feminist take on a classic story weaves seamlessly from rage to romance and is an absolute joy! As a self-confessed Hades and Persephone fan girl I knew I needed to get my grabby, Greek Myth-loving hands on a copy of this ASAP! I think that if the book didn't have too many fillers, I would actually bump the ratings to 4 stars.The main character- Core is growing in a book, learning who she is and not what she was forced / teached to be. The characters were sweet, from how this book is marketed you're expecting a feisty FMC, which she is, but she's also balanced - which I love to see.
Portrayed as a romance with a sexy love interest, this book was supposed to be romantic with dreamy characters but my god was it slow and none of the characters riveting. I really liked Hades to start with but then he just turns into this sort of boring character who just lets Persephone do whatever she wants and doesn't really seem to have an opinion half the time, or any objection to her changing his realm. I also find it hardly an empowerment that when she is asked what she wanted, she says 'the world' but then when Hecate asks her what she'd give for it, she says: 'NOTHING' but still gets it is just a bit ? If you’re familiar with YA romantic comedies, you’ll know that they’re often built on a hefty dose of misunderstandings, jumping to conclusions and conflicted characters not voicing aloud how they really feel.I adore a Hades and Persephone retelling and I have read my fair share of them in my time but this just felt a bit flat. I most definitely recommend this book if you are looking for a unique original spin on the story of Hades and Persephone.
Girl, Goddess, Queen is a fantasy rom-com retelling that weaves the classic story with snarky banter, slow burn romance and a feminist slant that sees the legendary goddess discovering her agency, desires and inherent power. It’s a careful line that Fitzgerald balances admirably with a sharp wit and genuine understanding of the simultaneous contemporary and historic issues she’s writing about. It was also clunky with phrases you'd expect to see on a modern teen drama or TikTok which considering the context was very jarring. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.
Personally, I was taking a break from high-stakes epic fantasy and this was a refreshing, witty romance to read with none of the crudeness you'd get from adult novels. Firstly, she refers to the Underworld consistently as ‘Hell,’ which is unusual, considering that the terminology is more common within Abrahamic religions and its etymological roots can be found in Norse mythology (Hel was the goddess of the Norse underworld, Niflheim), not Greek. However, there are some touches here that would easily raise it to four stars if the execution was better. Fun side characters and a hopeful coming-of-age heart make this one of the most entertaining reimaginings in an ever growing list of them. Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods.
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