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Seeds

by Angie Paxton
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For fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker, a debut fantasy novel set in Mycenaean Greece that explores the myth of Persephone through the lens of mother-daughter dynamics.
Kore has lived her entire life under her resentful mother Demeter's shadow, trying her hardest to please a woman grown bitter by betrayal. With her self-esteem in tatters and deliberately isolated by her mother, it's no surprise that Kore is flummoxed when she meets a collection of otherworldly women – the Goddesses of Olympus – who tell her that her mother is in truth a Goddess herself. Kore tells them her preferred name, Persephone, and hopes they will not only have answers for her new questions, but the friendship and love she craves. Instead, an imposing and stoic figure emerges from a nearby cave on a magical chariot and snatches Persephone away.

Upon realizing she has been taken to the Underworld by Hades, who desires she become his queen, Persephone vows to escape.

Demeter, enraged upon finding her daughter taken, goes to extreme lengths to reclaim her – putting the lives of all humanity, and even the gods, at risk.

Angie Paxton breathes new life into a myth that has been reshaped, adapted, and loved since Homer's Hymn to Demeter. Seeds is a deeply romantic story of two lonely souls finding one another, the pressure put on children to forgive their parents' abuse, and the power of resentment.

Content Warnings: References to child abuse, animal death, starvation, forcible confinement

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    January 7, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781998076918

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      • ISBN: 9781998076918
      • File size: 952 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      November 1, 2024
      Kore, or as her mother calls her in private, Persephone, has been shunned by the people of her village for years. So she's startled when a gaggle of goddesses in a field of flowers tell her of her true, immortal identity. Unfortunately, she has no time to enjoy it, as she's abducted just moments after by Hades and informed she'll be Queen of the Underworld from now on. Their relationship is rocky at first, but fans of the famous myth will be unsurprised to hear that sympathy and even a bit of romance begin to creep in at the edges. Meanwhile, Demeter is raging above, throwing a tantrum of a famine to show her anger. Is her ire really just about wanting the return of her daughter? Or are her plans for the young Orpheus, her plans for revenge, motivated by older slights at the hands of Hera and Zeus? This new novel will appeal to fans of the Hades-Persephone myth, fans of myth and folklore retellings, and certainly romantasy fans.

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