But they must feed off of the energy of a human every 100 years or they will die. In the book, the Everneath is explained as being the space between the world we live in and the Underworld, where the Everlivings have found the secret to eternal life. Pretty cool story, huh? I swear, I love mythology! Whenever she was with Hades, her mother would not let anything grow, thus the season of winter was born. Once she ate it, she was bound to the Underworld forever and had to spend 1/3rd of the year there. Hades reluctantly let her go, but gave her a pomegranate seed before she left. He sent his son Hermes down to the Underworld to get Hades to release Persephone. Zeus knew that this could not go on forever. Her extreme sorrow caused her to withdraw, and the earth became infertile.
When she found out what happened, she was livid (as any mother would be!). Her mother, Demeter (the goddess of harvest), wandered the surface of the Earth searching for her lost daughter. One day when she was out picking flowers on the plain of Enna, Hades emerged from the ground and abducted her. Persephone was beautiful, and sought after by many-namely Hades. This book is centered around the story of Persephone’s abduction by Hades, God of the Underworld. Then, when I minored in art history in college and studied Greek art, I learned a lot more about the ancient myths from the art that illustrated them. Ever since I was very young, I’ve always had an intense curiosity for Greek mythology. When I saw the description of this story on Netgalley, followed by the buzz and excitement around the blogosphere, I knew I had to read it. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.Īs Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance-and the one person she loves more than anything. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Now she’s returned-to her old life, her family, her boyfriend-before she’s banished back to the underworld. Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Genres: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Retelling, Romance Published by Balzer + Bray on January 24, 2012
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