Hearts in the Dark Book Club

Hello romance readers! Welcome to JCPL's Hearts in the Dark Book Club!

Every month we will read a different romance book geared toward a specific romance genre/trope. 

Come prepared to share all of your highlights and notes from our book! 

This book club is for 18+ only and will be meeting on the second Tuesday of every month at 6pm. To pick up a physical copy of the book, please visit the information desk. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

This month's read is Neon Gods by Katee Robert.

Synopsis: Society darling Persephone Dimitriou wants nothing to do with her mother's ambitions. She's biding her time until she's able to leave the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start her doctorate degree. The one thing she never planned on? Her mother ambushing her with an engagement to Zeus—a man with more than a few dead wives in his past. Persephone will do anything to escape that fate...even flee the sparkling upper city and make a devil's bargain with a man she once believed was a myth.

Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. Not even for the woman who flees into his territory as if the very hounds of hell are on her heels.

But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he's spent his entire life craving? It's all the excuse he needs to agree to help her—for a price. She'll be his for the summer, and then he'll see her safely out of Olympus and away from her mother and Zeus.

Hades and Persephone's deal might seem simple enough, but they both quickly realize it's anything but. With every breathless night spent with Hades, Persephone wonders at her ability to leave him behind. And Hades? Now that he has a taste for Persephone, he's willing to go to war with Olympus itself to keep her...

• Genres: Fantasy Romance, Dark Romance, Retellings, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Contemporary
• Tropes: Fake Relationship, alpha hero on the outside cinnamon roll on the inside, grumpy + sunshine
• Spice Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Modifications: This book is considered Open Door. For Closed Door Modifications, skip or proceed with caution on chapters Chapter 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24 and the Epilogue.