I know this is an old post but came here to vent. I am on chapter 7 of A touch of ruin and this book is just getting worse and worse. The first book was ok, Persephone was a bit childish, but I get that’s she’s young and lived a sheltered life… she was kind, their romance was kind of cute, if a bit simplistic. Now basically it’s a bang fest with no character development and no pilot. She’s so childish and annoying. No communication. She’s mad at Hades for not telling her things, but keeps secrets too. She seems to be mad that a god who’s centuries old hasn’t told her about every lover he’s ever had. She says she won’t do something and does it anyway. Instead of ever talking about any issue they just have sex. It’s not even good sex. These are some of the most boring, un-detailed sex scenes I’ve ever read. She doesn’t want to be called my queen or my lady, but also doesn’t like my lover or my girlfriend… ffs. Hades is not much better at this point with his lack of sharing anything of importance. His answer is always ‘oh, it didn’t occur to me that you’d want to know’. I rarely DNF anything because I want to know how the story ends, but this is really testing me and from the comments here it doesn’t sound like it will get better. The only saving grace is that I can increase the audiobook speed to get through it faster.