I liked this book! Greek mythology meets the center of the pandemic. It doesn’t delve deep into mythology but just enough so it doesn’t convolute the story. I thought it was very clever and worth the wait for the ending. Thanks!

Overall, I thought the story was so cute and darling. The semi-ending... meh.... but the rest was cute. The facts around the hinted-at covid??... Really NOT correct. Face masks, by admission of the US government itself FINALLY, did not and does not, make any difference in stopping the spread of covid. In fact, because people constantly touch old, reused face masks, it actually HELPS to spread disease. Sadly, face masks were used as a political rallying tool by the liberal left. You physically cannot read the expressions on a person's face when they are wearing a face mask. The smile does NOT "come thru" the opaque mask, nor is it clear from the eyes alone or even tone of voice, that a person is smiling or frowning etc. Face masks were a huge impediment to the hearing impaired and the deaf, indeed to communications even among unimpaired persons. The use of face masks and the social isolation feel they caused, in addition to the imposed-governmental physical "social" isolation (an oxymoron), helped to cause countless suicides. We cannot romanticize the hugely deleterious impacts of the political decisions to enforce face mask use and social isolation. People die from flu complications all the time, but they are not counted as the primary cause of death, as covid was... the "millions" of people who died is a fallacy. The covid virus has been around for thousands of years, and will continue to be around for thousands of years. We never kept numbers on covid complications before, so any numbers now are certainly going to be higher than nothing, and counting every death that may or may not have had "covid" associated with it (motor cycle accident with covid, or heart failure with covid, etc) create meaningless covid death counts. A virus that kills it's host immediately has no hope of spreading, thus viruses that are highly deadly usually die out very quickly with their hosts. A virus that mutates to a milder form, allows the host to live, and thus gets spread more easily than any deadly virus does. After the initial engineered covid strain that came out of a Wuhan lab (that also had funding by the US government under Fauci) the engineered-covid was a threat only to those who had 2.5 pre-existing conditions.... the very old and the very young... in the same way that RSV and the flu are a big threat to these populations.

I loved the mix of mythology with modern day - covid19 and Demeter! The story was so beautifully woven. Ending was very … meh.. Ironically, none of it was Persephone’s choice! Narrator had a lovely voice to my Australian ears. (Took me a bit to get used to the (to my mind) mispronunciations of “sure”, but then I enjoyed them!) Great listen.

An enjoyable story with a great twist on mythology and current events. You immediately felt connected and interested in the characters and the story. Going to look for more books by this author.

O boy is this badly written. The idea okay, but really needed a good editor to sort this out and make it a lot shorter also. Narrator with very strange intonation, especially in conversations.

Interesting setting in Singapore. Interesting premise.

I LOVED this story. As someone who appreciates beyond measure a reclaiming of patriarchal storytelling myths, I found the portrayal of Persephone and Hades nourishing and reinvigorating. (Especially as someone going thru significant Pluto transits, if ya get me). Some lovely bits of wisdom written with cheeky approachability and fun characters. 4/5 stars bc I genuinely wanted it to be longer and the end felt rushed. I would reread :)

Enjoyed the narrator and story.

Interesting story.

Narrator is extreme annoying.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book, narration was wonderful. Storyline was not too heavy and not too frivolous. Great listen!

Sweet story with an old time feel of sitting down to hear an elder tell of a people’s legend.

Thank goodness this was free.