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Hades x Persephone Saga reading order

Scarlett St. Clair

  1. A Touch of Darkness2019
  2. A Touch of Ruin2020
  3. A Touch of Chaos2024
7.37.3 / 10
716 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
2019–2024
Published
about 25 h
Reading time
Ongoing
Status

Quick answer

A Touch of Darkness
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Publication order

3 volumes2019–2024Ongoing

  • A steamy retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth in a modern Greek-god setting, told from Persephone’s side: A Touch of Darkness, Ruin, Malice and Chaos, in that order.
  • Readers are split — the first book rates about 7.2.
  • Hades tells his side in the separate Game series.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,389 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.

  • The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2024. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 6, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 115 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 21, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 211 h14 daysby December 6, 2026
    • 4. A Touch of Chaos2024 · 592 pages · 11 h
  4. The end of the series
    December 6, 2026
In one goDecember 2, 2026about 5 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 6, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

Read: 0 of 3
  1. A Touch of Darkness
    A Touch of Darkness2019 · 504 ratingsStart here
    7.27.2 / 10
  2. A Touch of Ruin
    A Touch of Ruin2020 · 212 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. A Touch of Chaos
    A Touch of Chaos2024 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which Hades x Persephone Saga book is the longest?

“A Touch of Chaos” is the longest at 592 pages; the shortest is “A Touch of Darkness” with 379 pages.