Like Girl Games, this book has different PoVs with each chapter. Only instead of 4 PoVs, there are now only 2. Persephone has some of the chapters and Hades has the other. This is the only time we've ever had a male PoV in this series so far.
This book deals with the Orpheus myth. Orpheus is a teen superstar and Eurydice is his girlfriend/muse. The book starts with Persephone being upset that mortals voted her Most Dependable in a Teen Scrollazine poll. She feels that's boring. So she accepts a dare from new character Atë. Atë is a spirit goddess and she's the spirit of reckless impulse. Not the best person to take a dare from. Atë is unusual in being the (so far) only somewhat important character of a book that has absolutely zero physical description. It's not even mentioned how being a spirit goddess is different. If it is at all. I don't know. Anyway, Atë dares Persephone to get Orpheus's autograph at the next night's concert. Persephone ends up pulling this off and some of the musician boys invite Orpheus and his band to MOA for the week (with Zeus's permission, of course). Persephone starts hanging out with reckless, flighty, utterly stupid Eurydice.
Eurydice is the only character thus far that I actually hate. She's a fucking idiot. She flits around from person to person, making each think they're special to her only to move on to the next one. She does everything with absolutely zero thought of the consequences. She's also a mortal with pink hair, which I find weird. How does she dye her hair pink? Not sure that was possible in ancient Greece. Immortals I can accept weird hair colors, but not mortals. Although she does have one of the best outfits in the series (the black and white one).
In other words, she's not at all dependable and Persephone eventually learns by the end of the book that being dependable is a good thing and not at all dull and boring.
So Eurydice treats a bunch of people like crap and eventually accepts a dare from Atë, which leads to her being trapped in the Underworld. Hades, Persephone, Aphrodite and Orpheus manage to get her out, but Orpheus does the old look back and boom, she's trapped there again. Persephone eventually comes up with a plan and gets her out, much to the joy of EVERYONE, including the Furies who had insisted on trapping Eurydice there in the first place. She's that fucking chaotic and annoying that she practically ruins the Underworld.
The other plot going on is that Hades is dealing with being voted Most Fascinating and mortals are hanging out outside the Underworld and being obnoxious. It's also his birthday soon and Persephone develops a hybrid flower that can live in the Underworld. They have a lot of cute moments and are my favorite couple. So adorable! Hades is by far the best male character, so I'm glad he got the PoV chapter experience.
I did enjoy Hades' chapters, but at the same time, I felt Persephone was cheated out of a whole book to herself and with that giant gap between #2 and #11, she's definitely getting the short end of the stick in this series. Cassandra the Lucky has PoV chapters for both her and Athena, which is also unfair because Athena has all of #13 to herself.
This book is okay, but not one of the better ones sadly. Mostly because I just hate Eurydice. She never learns a lesson. Neither does Atë, by the way, who slinks off and doesn't do a thing to undo the mess she made. I can't remember if we ever see her again. Kinda don't think so.
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