Don’t Hold Back, Lord Hades! Vol. 1


Queer Rep:

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Smutty Stuff:

Aphrodisiac, Enthusiastic Consent, Fingering, Gentle, Multiple Orgasms, Oral, and Public


In the Realm of the Gods, new goddess Persephone spends her days tending to her fields of flowers. Every new sprout comes at the cost of an old one withering and dying—which is how she meets the handsome but taciturn Hades, who visits to collect the dead. Persephone grieves for the death of her beloved plants, but Hades’s warmth and encouragement touch her heart. Persephone learns Hades is a victim of the Gods’ conspiracy, and she offers up her own body to save the Lord of the Underworld! Can their passion stand against all of Olympus?

A vanilla hentai manga, more or less. It’s very cute at times and it leans into the drama of the gods.

Thought it was funny that in this canon they go out of their way to say all the gods are NOT related, having sprung into being from chaos, and so all the debauched sex parties is NOT incest, guys, there’s no incest.

This iteration of Persephone and Hades is very sweet and horny, with very enthusiastic consent and a lot of oral. Zeus is rightfully considered a sexed-up nasty dude who tries to rape Persephone to pull one over on his brother, so…

I’m down for this mostly, just one little thing…

He uses the nickname Sephy.

I sit there going, this is good, and then he says it and I put down the book for a minute going 😐

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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