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I enjoyed this book more than the second book of this series, and I haven't yet read the first. Here, I really enjoyed the interaction between the characters; this is a very character-driven book. That is to say, there is little action here; the gist is mainly struggles in the relationships that the characters attempt to resolve in light of hidden family secrets and in having to choose worlds that are so incompatibly different.

My favourite part was when mother and child, Demeter and Persephone, assert each other's roles as she transforms from budding adult to a fully mature, confident young woman who no longer needs a mother figure for emotional support. The ability of either Demeter or Persephone to alter Persephone's signs of womanhood, i.e. body-shifting, was hilarious and symbolic.

In fact, there are many hilarious moments in this book, which engaged me and kept me on reading, even when I had other things to do. I loved it when the gods argued among themselves; I had no idea that the gods could be so imperfect, vain, hypocritical, argumentative, and in plain words, just like mortals. It is almost the book consisted of petitions verbally, i.e. a band of supporters take the wronged family member to the perpetrator, make their case in front of open family while the wrongdoer and wronged vent out hostility, and then try the case and render a verdict! Imagine if we could do that within our families!

I also had no idea that the Greek gods were so incestuous. Hera and Zeus were sister and brother and also wife and husband? Even Demeter, sister of Zeus, mated with Zeus to give birth to Persephone herself? I checked the references, and it's been myth for centuries, I was quite shocked that the ancient Greeks had the fortitude and nerve to create such story lines! I'm not very familiar with mythology, and here it was a fascinating read. No wonder Greek mythology has survived for so long.

Toward the end of the book, it started to drift, after the point where Demeter trashed Zeus in front of the family court, which I've already mentioned. There are quite a few erotic scenes between Persephone and Hades, and the final one is quite creative--I won't get into details here. It was fun seeing how Persephone developed new powers by exploring her abilities; almost in an organic way by sensing what she had deep within. As I mentioned in my review in the second book, I was uneasy over the notion of being happy within a gilded cage, but here in this volume it seems the author nearly made this gilded cage vanish entirely; it's almost an afterthought here as Persephone has so much power and freedom that her tasting of the forbidden fruit has almost no impact any longer, and that's the way it should be.

All in all, I'm not one to read on Greek mythology, but this author makes it so real here, and I was engrossed in reading this, wanting to know more about the relationships.


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Seeds 3 Volume 3 M M Kin 9781492341611 Books Reviews

I read all three books, because after reading the first one, I just needed to be able to conclude the story. While I appreciate the author’s intensive research and the level of detail that she invested into the world, the writing wasn’t very good. The style draws too much from general fan fiction in that there’s a lack of consistency and too much verbosity. Similar to what other reviewers said, the author relies too much on colloquial language that doesn’t fit with the time period. She usually does this to give levity to a situation or maybe to help readers feel a better sense of connection to the main characters, but she loses the flow of the narrative by doing so. The work also needs to be reread and edited carefully apart from checking proper language and length, there was a chapter in volume 2 about Iasion and Demeter that just jumped paragraphs weren’t in order.

In terms of characterizations, I feel that while the characters have been clearly detailed, their personalities are not strong enough to create strong attachments. We are told of Persephon’s increasing wisdom, but I don’t know if we actually see it in the story. Although the story is ostensibly about her, her development has been rather stagnant. Hades, while charming and handsome, feels little more than a love struck and stubborn mule. They don’t actually communicate despite all the time they spend together. I was baffled throughout by the callousness Hades showed at Persephone’s desire to experience life again. As a person who claimed to love her, shouldn’t he be divining a solution for her to experience both worlds? That Persephone would fall in love with someone who showed little care about her emotional turmoil seemed unrealistic to me.
Without giving away too much of the plot, I think it's safe to say that Seeds, read as a trilogy, is a well defined and richly characterized story. Like the two volumes before it, I couldn't put it down, but only now have gotten a chance to give it a full review.

Seeds Volume 3 by M.M. Kin continues right where we left off after the jaw-dropping cliffhanger of the second volume. What I liked about its resolution was how refreshingly mature it was.

Too often in romantic plot lines, the principal characters act like juveniles, which always baffled me and turned me off. M.M. Kin deftly avoids common cliché tropes by writing Hades and Persephone as engaging and fully realized individuals. Our heroine's journey receives more attention as she comes into her own with her mother and tries to make sense of the world she left behind.

Those familiar with the story know about how this is the Greek myth of why there is a season of growing and a season of fallow. The author goes far beyond this and explores how Persephone comes to terms with herself, her mother, her lover, and the other Olympian gods and Hellenic mortals. The author has done her homework, going in depth into different modes of worship in the Hellenic and wider ancient world.

The scope of the book is expanded far beyond the boundaries of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and those looking for a fast resolution will be disappointed by the more character driven and introspective bent of the third installment. But if the author took the quick and easy path, the entire trilogy would have rang hollow. Instead, she builds on characters we have grown to care about without simplistically creating a protagonist/antagonist relationship between Hades and Demeter over the fate of Persephone and relegating her to little more than an object of possession.

In what has been often interpreted in art and literature as "The Rape of Persephone", Seeds instead painstakingly crafts the heroine as a complex individual, a fully realized woman, and does a stupendous job of telling the myth from— dare I say it— a feminist perspective. Given the intensely patriarchal culture from which this story originated, that's quite a feat, and totally to the author's credit.

The epilogue left me misty-eyed.

I would enthusiastically recommend this series to anyone.
I enjoyed this book more than the second book of this series, and I haven't yet read the first. Here, I really enjoyed the interaction between the characters; this is a very character-driven book. That is to say, there is little action here; the gist is mainly struggles in the relationships that the characters attempt to resolve in light of hidden family secrets and in having to choose worlds that are so incompatibly different.

My favourite part was when mother and child, Demeter and Persephone, assert each other's roles as she transforms from budding adult to a fully mature, confident young woman who no longer needs a mother figure for emotional support. The ability of either Demeter or Persephone to alter Persephone's signs of womanhood, i.e. body-shifting, was hilarious and symbolic.

In fact, there are many hilarious moments in this book, which engaged me and kept me on reading, even when I had other things to do. I loved it when the gods argued among themselves; I had no idea that the gods could be so imperfect, vain, hypocritical, argumentative, and in plain words, just like mortals. It is almost the book consisted of petitions verbally, i.e. a band of supporters take the wronged family member to the perpetrator, make their case in front of open family while the wrongdoer and wronged vent out hostility, and then try the case and render a verdict! Imagine if we could do that within our families!

I also had no idea that the Greek gods were so incestuous. Hera and Zeus were sister and brother and also wife and husband? Even Demeter, sister of Zeus, mated with Zeus to give birth to Persephone herself? I checked the references, and it's been myth for centuries, I was quite shocked that the ancient Greeks had the fortitude and nerve to create such story lines! I'm not very familiar with mythology, and here it was a fascinating read. No wonder Greek mythology has survived for so long.

Toward the end of the book, it started to drift, after the point where Demeter trashed Zeus in front of the family court, which I've already mentioned. There are quite a few erotic scenes between Persephone and Hades, and the final one is quite creative--I won't get into details here. It was fun seeing how Persephone developed new powers by exploring her abilities; almost in an organic way by sensing what she had deep within. As I mentioned in my review in the second book, I was uneasy over the notion of being happy within a gilded cage, but here in this volume it seems the author nearly made this gilded cage vanish entirely; it's almost an afterthought here as Persephone has so much power and freedom that her tasting of the forbidden fruit has almost no impact any longer, and that's the way it should be.

All in all, I'm not one to read on Greek mythology, but this author makes it so real here, and I was engrossed in reading this, wanting to know more about the relationships.