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The Fate of Persephone (1877), painted by Walter Crane, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Greek myth of Hade's abduction of Persephone is briefly mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony and in more detail in the first  Homeric Hymn to Demeter ("Persephone,"  Wikipedia ). The Hymn to Demeter is 495 lines long and was written by an anonymous source. The term Homeric is only added to the hymns because they use the same dactylic hexameter and the same dialect as the Iliad and Odyssey ; however, they were not written during Homer's lifetime ("Homeric Hymns,"  Wikipedia ). Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne, holy shrine of Persephone, Locri, Italy, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Story Summary Hades, Lord of the Underworld, gets permission from his brother and her father, Zeus, to kidnap Persephone. When she bends over to pluck a Narcissus from the ground that was specifically put there to lure her in, Hades emerges from the ground on his char

Title A Mirror Mended Author Alix E Harrow Series Fractured Tales #2 Book #1 is A Spindle Splintered  (a Sleeping Beauty retelling) Content Warning Implied cannibalism of children, kidnapping of a child, terminal illness, LGBTQ+ rep, fade-to-black sex scenes, non-consensual kiss Goodreads Synopsis A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for he

Title The Girl and the Seven Thieves Author Olivia Snowe Illustrator Michelle Lamoreaux Content Warning Attempted murder, non-consensual kiss Goodreads Synopsis Eira and her stepmother don't get along, but she never expected to be left in a New York City alley. When seven thieves find her, she'll have to try to trust them. ( Goodreads ) Story Review *** (3 stars out of 5) This book is a Middle Grade retelling of Snow White. For my taste it's a little formulaic and far too short to really develop any real sense of the characters. I also think it wraps up the evil stepmother much too neatly. I did like the idea of the thieves, since they also have a reason to want to hide away from society. The addition of actual magic kind of took me out of the setting, so I wish that part had been handled differently. *Spoiler Warning* Do not read beyond this point if you have not read the book and you care about spoilers.