Phone Home Persephone!
Author: Kate McMullan
In this book Hades, god of the Underworld, shows readers what really happened between him and Persephone, goddess of the Underworld. This book is second in a series of books in which Hades tells readers how his brother Zeus lies about history. Then he explains what really happened.
In Phone Home Persephone, Hades is infuriated by a tale saying that he kidnapped Persephone to be his wife. In fact, as Hades explains it, he would have liked nothing to do with his young niece. But one day Persephone was determined to get away from her overly protective mother. So she snuck a ride to the Underworld on Hades' chariot. After that, Persephone developed a crush on Hades and arranged a meeting with the little god, Cupid.
One day Persephone asked Hades on a picnic. Though Hades didn't know it, Cupid was lurking in the bushes. After that picnic Hades started noticing that he loved Persephone. Cupid's arrow wore off in about a week, but Hades was still in love with Persephone. His Uncle Shiner (a cyclops), however, realized that Hades had been hit with one of Cupid's arrows. There was a wedding about to take place, and Demeter (Persephone's mother) had brought relatives to the Underworld to take Persephone back to earth, where Demeter thought Persephone belonged. The rest of the story is about what happens when everyone is trying to stop the wedding.
The main characters of this story are Persephone, Uncle Shiner, some avenging fairy sisters, and Hades, who all live in the Underworld. I enjoyed this book because I like to read about ancient Greek beliefs. I would recommend this book to third grade and up because it is entertaining, but some of the words could be a little hard for under third grade. Phone Home Persephone and the other books in this series definitely get two thumbs up from me!
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