Radiant Darkness

By Emily Whitman
(Greenwillow Books, Paperback, 9780061724510, 288pp.)

Publication Date: March 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Library Binding

Categories: Love & Romance, Legends, Myths, & Fables - Greek & Roman, Girls & Women

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Summer 2009 Kids' List

“Emily Whitman has written an inventive retelling of the myth of Persephone's kidnapping by Hades and her stay in the Underworld. In this version, she is a willing participant in the seduction, but then has to establish herself as an equal in her relationship with Hades. Are there modern overtones? Yes, and they help make Radiant Darkness a very good story.”

-- Nicola Rooney, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI

Description

Even paradise can be a prison

Persephone is immortal. Her mother is Demeter, all-powerful goddess of the harvest. Her friends are nymphs and dryads. She lives in a valley of eternal springtime, where everything is always blooming and nothing ever changes. And she wants out. She wants to grow and change, make mistakes, fall in love . . .

When a dark stranger arrives in her vale—all skin and breath and power—she may finally have her chance to do it all. But can the world survive a love so forbidden?

Praise For Radiant Darkness…

“A terrific story of a girl on the edge of womanhood, caught between a mother who offers no reverence and a boy who offers worship.”
-Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author

“Whitman makes Hades and Persephone (Hadephone? Persades?) a glam celebrity couple that everyone will want to read about.”
-Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Will satisfy fans of Libba Bray and Stephenie Meyer.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“A steamy coming-of-age novel laced with feminist sensibilities.”
-ALA Booklist

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