Abandoned
By Meg Cabot
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy/Mythology
Personal Rating: 4/10

This was a total random book I picked up at the book store one day and finally got around to reading this month. The only reason I picked it up was because I had never read a Meg Cabot book before (author of The Princess Diaries series) and since she's pretty popular I thought I should read at least one of her books. Sadly, I was not impressed.

The story line of this book basically a retelling of Hades and Persephone, but there are so many retelling of this myth--ones I absolutely love like Everneath by Brodi Ashton--that this one just seemed really unimpressive to me. I felt like the characters didn't go anywhere and where just annoying throughout the entire story. I also was not a fan of Meg Cabot's writing style in this book, it didn't flow really well and there was nothing about her writing that I found captivating or worth reading. I was actually sort of bored reading it. Maybe this book would resonate better with a lower age group, but with protagonists as old as they were, I felt like the writing could have been more mature. It wasn't a terrible book, just not for me.