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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

October 23, 2021 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR13 BINGO: Mythic Square BINGO! (Book Club Square to Free Square diagonal) I was looking for something to tick the “Mythic” square off my CBR Bingo card and wanted something that was heavy on the re-telling and light on requiring PhD level knowledge of Greek mythology in order to “get it.” This fit the bill but I think if I had a better memory for the mythology class I took 100 years ago in college it would have been helpful. This a YA mythic send […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alexandra Bracken, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Fiction, mythology retold

Leedock's CBR13 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alexandra Bracken, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Fiction, mythology retold ·
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Reclaiming the Persephone Myth

At The Touch of Death by Gina Carra

October 21, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

A request went out to any Cannonballers who would be interested in a newly published lesbian/LGBTQ romance in exchange for an honest review. I volunteered. At the Touch of Death retells the Abduction of Persephone myth, making it a love story in which Hades and Persephone are both taken hostage by love, but get their happily ever after when Persephone reclaims her agency and fights for a relationship with Hades. In Greek mythology, Hades, the God of the Underworld sees Persephone, the Goddess of Fertility and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: At the Touch of Death, Gina Carra, greek mythology, lesbian romance, LGBTQ romance, mythology retold

Emmalita's CBR11 Review No:75 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: At the Touch of Death, Gina Carra, greek mythology, lesbian romance, LGBTQ romance, mythology retold ·
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