![]() ![]() Now, before you cry, “Spoilers!” and clap your hands over your eyes, Abandon most definitely reimagines this myth. Her mother, Demeter, gets so upset each time that she makes the earth barren while her daughter is gone. She swallows about five pomegranate seeds (it depends on the retelling), and these seeds force her to return to the Underworld for that many months out of the year. While down in the Underworld, Hades tricks Persephone into doing what a living soul should never do in the Land of the Dead–eating some of the food. He wants her to become his bride, so he abducts her and drags her down to the Underworld. While Persephone is out in a meadow, picking flowers or something, a chasm splits the earth and out rides Hades, God of the Dead and King of the Underworld. It’s marketed as “the myth of Persephone… darkly reimagined.”įor those not familiar with the myth, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus, King of the Gods, and Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest. ![]() I received an ARC of Abandon from the publisher, and was intrigued enough by the premise to dive in. ![]()
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