Breakfast with my first Persephone, which I‘m finally reading four years after I bought it. I love Ashton‘s prose style and I‘m enjoying the story, but the book itself is giving me grief. The binding‘s so stiff that it must‘ve been designed for those people who barely open their books when they read them—which, to be blunt, I consider ridiculous behaviour. If all Persephones are like this, I won‘t rush to get another. My hands HURT.