Writing style
Atmospheric · Descriptive · Direct
Apple BooksTouch of Darkness
Romance
- Print length
- 379 pagesSourcebooks, Incorporated, 2021
Description
Persephone carries the title Goddess of Spring, yet flowers wither at her touch. Hiding in New Athens as a mortal journalist, she hopes to build a quiet life beyond divine expectations. That plan collapses when she plays cards with a mysterious stranger in a forbidden nightclub and discovers that he is Hades, ruler of a gambling empire in the mortal world. Their game creates a binding bargain: Persephone must produce life in the Underworld or surrender her freedom. Her effort to escape the contract draws her deeper into Hades’s domain and into feelings she considers equally dangerous. This contemporary mythic romance reworks divine power, desire, and self-discovery through a wager neither participant can treat as merely a game.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Atmospheric · Dark · Romantic · Tense
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Relationships · World
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781728258454
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