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Retold: The Grecian Women #4

Daughters of Olympus

Hannah M. Lynn

3.96

A daughter pulled between two worlds and a mother willing to destroy both to protect her...

Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.

Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. After an act of devastating violence, though, she hides herself away among the grasses and wildflowers. Her only solace is her daughter…

Before she was Persephone, she was Core.

Core is as bright as summer and devoted to her mother, even during their millennia in exile from Olympus. But she craves freedom. Naïve and determined, she secretly builds a life of her own—and as she does so, she catches the eye of a powerful god…

The daughters of Olympus will have the last word…

Then Hades kidnaps Core and renames her as Queen of the Underworld. In the land without sun, she realizes she may have a chance to gain back what she thought she'd lost forever. But Demeter will destroy anything—even the humans she holds so dear—to bring her daughter back. A mother who has lost everything and a daughter with more to gain than she ever realized, they will irrevocably shape the world: all in the name of something as human as love.

A lush, emotional read perfect for fans of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood, this is the story of Persephone and Demeter.

Pages
448
First published
2024
ISBN
9781728284309

Shelved by 2 Litcadians

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  • Finished October 20, 2025

    I ended up loving this story so much, I got so lost in it I forgot to keep notes most of the time. It’s one of the best stories I’ve read about Hades and Persephone, because I feel like it stayed the most true to the original story. Demeter’s love for her daughter is so inspiring and it breaks my heart to know that we basically have winter because of her grief. At one point I wondered if it wouldn’t be better to have two separate books for the two characters, but I really liked how well they tied together in the end.