Oh, wow, that novel sounds completely golden - I mean, the story of Persephone is about her fading in and out of the living world, so I can absolutely see her as a figure threading her way in and out of history, with Hades hanging on every stitch. And the idea of Hades as a penny-dreadful-ish(?) Dark Stranger is fantastic - so much potential for playing with melodrama and the Victorian fetishism of death. And he'd work very well as a modern-day no-good-boyo, of course.
And it would work wonderfully in a (very) vaguely Orlando-ish way about history and Womanhood - and also as a YA book, because Persephone herself is I guess an example, perhaps the example, of the cost of youth and spring.
[Though, sidenote - I always think we need a term that says more about this kind of book than 'young adult' does - I know I always found it rather mealy mouthed when I was in the right age range because I was very intent on being a teenager, not a mini adult. And now it makes me feel aged! Plus, so much exciting stuff is happening under the YA rubric, it seems a pity to have such a specific label attached? But it is useful and I do feel I know just what it means, so, hmm.]
BUT ANYWAY, I would very much love to read this book!
And, oh man, you enjoy my 31_days stuff? *__* Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you.
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And it would work wonderfully in a (very) vaguely Orlando-ish way about history and Womanhood - and also as a YA book, because Persephone herself is I guess an example, perhaps the example, of the cost of youth and spring.
[Though, sidenote - I always think we need a term that says more about this kind of book than 'young adult' does - I know I always found it rather mealy mouthed when I was in the right age range because I was very intent on being a teenager, not a mini adult. And now it makes me feel aged! Plus, so much exciting stuff is happening under the YA rubric, it seems a pity to have such a specific label attached? But it is useful and I do feel I know just what it means, so, hmm.]
BUT ANYWAY, I would very much love to read this book!
And, oh man, you enjoy my 31_days stuff? *__* Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you.