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I feel really bad about giving this one a three star review because I adored the first books. The third one just seemed to... drag on? I don't know how to word it. With the first and second book I could hardly put them down and flew through the pages in two days or so, this one I ended up taking a month to read.

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*Review might contain slight spoilers*
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I feel Persephone's quest for assertiveness and maturity became more like petulance, kind of felt like a small child stamping her foot in annoyance, which is exactly what she is trying to prove she is not! I believe this is in part due to the modern speech used in the book, her haughty attitude and the repetitiveness/frequency of her outbursts. If she had been quietly debating with cultured words more in tone with the period she might have come off as less annoying... I actually found myself disliking her and feeling sorry for Hades for being in love with her...
She also simply seemed to have no weakness other than her character faults; she's beautiful, sharp and extremely powerful (enough to throw down with Demeter, Zeus AND Hades) I still love Hades, even when he acts like a stereotype.

In all, I feel this one was maybe a bit too long. I would have preferred if the third book was trimmed down; this series might have benefited greatly from the first and second books being a bit longer with a nice "pow" conclusion instead of making a whole third book at all. I still liked the series. They were a wonderful read and I WOULD buy them again if I was given a choice. Kin obviously researched and put a lot of time into the making of Seeds, the third book was simply not as va-va-boom as I expected from the first two. If Kin publishes another book or series, I would also buy them and read them. I've bought many bad, horrifying and amateur myth fiction novels hoping to find a good story, and this is one of the few series that DOES deliver.


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Seeds 3 Volume 3 M M Kin 9781492341611 Books Reviews

I enjoyed this book more than the second book of this series, and I haven't yet read the first. Here, I really enjoyed the interaction between the characters; this is a very character-driven book. That is to say, there is little action here; the gist is mainly struggles in the relationships that the characters attempt to resolve in light of hidden family secrets and in having to choose worlds that are so incompatibly different.

My favourite part was when mother and child, Demeter and Persephone, assert each other's roles as she transforms from budding adult to a fully mature, confident young woman who no longer needs a mother figure for emotional support. The ability of either Demeter or Persephone to alter Persephone's signs of womanhood, i.e. body-shifting, was hilarious and symbolic.

In fact, there are many hilarious moments in this book, which engaged me and kept me on reading, even when I had other things to do. I loved it when the gods argued among themselves; I had no idea that the gods could be so imperfect, vain, hypocritical, argumentative, and in plain words, just like mortals. It is almost the book consisted of petitions verbally, i.e. a band of supporters take the wronged family member to the perpetrator, make their case in front of open family while the wrongdoer and wronged vent out hostility, and then try the case and render a verdict! Imagine if we could do that within our families!

I also had no idea that the Greek gods were so incestuous. Hera and Zeus were sister and brother and also wife and husband? Even Demeter, sister of Zeus, mated with Zeus to give birth to Persephone herself? I checked the references, and it's been myth for centuries, I was quite shocked that the ancient Greeks had the fortitude and nerve to create such story lines! I'm not very familiar with mythology, and here it was a fascinating read. No wonder Greek mythology has survived for so long.

Toward the end of the book, it started to drift, after the point where Demeter trashed Zeus in front of the family court, which I've already mentioned. There are quite a few erotic scenes between Persephone and Hades, and the final one is quite creative--I won't get into details here. It was fun seeing how Persephone developed new powers by exploring her abilities; almost in an organic way by sensing what she had deep within. As I mentioned in my review in the second book, I was uneasy over the notion of being happy within a gilded cage, but here in this volume it seems the author nearly made this gilded cage vanish entirely; it's almost an afterthought here as Persephone has so much power and freedom that her tasting of the forbidden fruit has almost no impact any longer, and that's the way it should be.

All in all, I'm not one to read on Greek mythology, but this author makes it so real here, and I was engrossed in reading this, wanting to know more about the relationships.
I feel really bad about giving this one a three star review because I adored the first books. The third one just seemed to... drag on? I don't know how to word it. With the first and second book I could hardly put them down and flew through the pages in two days or so, this one I ended up taking a month to read.

****
*Review might contain slight spoilers*
*****

I feel Persephone's quest for assertiveness and maturity became more like petulance, kind of felt like a small child stamping her foot in annoyance, which is exactly what she is trying to prove she is not! I believe this is in part due to the modern speech used in the book, her haughty attitude and the repetitiveness/frequency of her outbursts. If she had been quietly debating with cultured words more in tone with the period she might have come off as less annoying... I actually found myself disliking her and feeling sorry for Hades for being in love with her...
She also simply seemed to have no weakness other than her character faults; she's beautiful, sharp and extremely powerful (enough to throw down with Demeter, Zeus AND Hades) I still love Hades, even when he acts like a stereotype.

In all, I feel this one was maybe a bit too long. I would have preferred if the third book was trimmed down; this series might have benefited greatly from the first and second books being a bit longer with a nice "pow" conclusion instead of making a whole third book at all. I still liked the series. They were a wonderful read and I WOULD buy them again if I was given a choice. Kin obviously researched and put a lot of time into the making of Seeds, the third book was simply not as va-va-boom as I expected from the first two. If Kin publishes another book or series, I would also buy them and read them. I've bought many bad, horrifying and amateur myth fiction novels hoping to find a good story, and this is one of the few series that DOES deliver.