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icy_queen's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Emotional abuse
mj_86's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Gun violence, and Violence
Minor: Child abuse, Death, and Murder
emmaprobasco's review against another edition
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This was my first fantasy book and I really enjoyed the theme of living in Olympus and having the characters be modern greek mythology but when I was actually reading the book I got a little bored in the middle because there were a lot of “spicy” scenes/chapters. I also feel like most of the book was just leading up to the ending that was only two pages long (if that makes any sense) Even though it was kind of slow in the middle it picked back up again in the end and the ending made me really happy :)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
behindherpages's review against another edition
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Murder
dancers_and_dragons's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
labeaux's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Murder
moodreadmoonchild's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book is perfect. i have nothing else to say. read it. then reread it. then schedule to reread it again once a season for the rest of you life. If you need a little more convincing (which you shouldn’t) see below:
✨enemies to lovers
✨forced proximity
✨fake dating
✨marriage of convenience
✨morality chain
✨plus-sized FMC
✨he falls first and he falls harder
✨i was sent to kill you but you make me 😍
✨touch her and die
✨that’s my wife
✨enemies to lovers
✨forced proximity
✨fake dating
✨marriage of convenience
✨morality chain
✨plus-sized FMC
✨he falls first and he falls harder
✨i was sent to kill you but you make me 😍
✨touch her and die
✨that’s my wife
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Gun violence
Minor: Violence and Murder
murder & violence off-page body shaming in ch 1, 3, & 31 emotional and financial abuselindsaysofia_25's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
I love this entire series but this particular book is definitely my least favourite of it. It's still a good book but it doesn't really hold a candle to the rest of the series. That's not to say other people wouldn't like it though, I just think Wicked Beauty and Neon Gods are both more interesting outside the romance and better fit my taste.
Added after reread in 2024: I definitely still think this is my least favourite in the series, but I still enjoyed rereading it (some parts more than others). Ironically, the redeeming qualities of the book and why it doesn't quite hit as a romance for me are intertwined: I liked the background politics and my favourite scene is the major confrontation at the climax, but I just never got past the premise. Part of it is that I still don't really get why Eros thought getting married would work, and I just personally had a hard time thinking of their predicament as a hot set-up to a romance rather than a very scary situation. Bringing up Polyphonte so often really didn't help with that. Again: definitely all comes down to taste! Another taste thing, I personally hated the use of 'wife' as a pet name.
I actually found while rereading that the chemistry between Eros and Psyche falls pretty flat. Perhaps it's because I started reading it the day after I finished my Neon Gods reread, so I still had Hades and Persephone's absolutely unmatchable chemistry front-of-mind... but I just found myself not fully buying in to their romance. I really didn't get the butterflies I usually get reading romance.
Electric Idol is truly an outlier in the series. I think I might actually have rated it better if it wasn't part of a series I really like, because it definitely seems worse by comparison than I imagine it might on its own. Along that vein, I noticed a lot more grammatical errors in this book than in Neon Gods and I definitely don't remember many in the other books of the series (although we'll see as I proceed with the reread), which just seems odd. I wonder if this book had a different editor than the others or perhaps was on an accelerated timeline and just didn't get as much close attention as it needed? I guess it's also possible that I was just paying more attention to that kind of stuff because I was already a little pissy about not liking it in the first place!
Added after reread in 2024: I definitely still think this is my least favourite in the series, but I still enjoyed rereading it (some parts more than others). Ironically, the redeeming qualities of the book and why it doesn't quite hit as a romance for me are intertwined: I liked the background politics and my favourite scene is the major confrontation at the climax, but I just never got past the premise. Part of it is that I still don't really get why Eros thought getting married would work, and I just personally had a hard time thinking of their predicament as a hot set-up to a romance rather than a very scary situation. Bringing up Polyphonte so often really didn't help with that. Again: definitely all comes down to taste! Another taste thing, I personally hated the use of 'wife' as a pet name.
I actually found while rereading that the chemistry between Eros and Psyche falls pretty flat. Perhaps it's because I started reading it the day after I finished my Neon Gods reread, so I still had Hades and Persephone's absolutely unmatchable chemistry front-of-mind... but I just found myself not fully buying in to their romance. I really didn't get the butterflies I usually get reading romance.
Electric Idol is truly an outlier in the series. I think I might actually have rated it better if it wasn't part of a series I really like, because it definitely seems worse by comparison than I imagine it might on its own. Along that vein, I noticed a lot more grammatical errors in this book than in Neon Gods and I definitely don't remember many in the other books of the series (although we'll see as I proceed with the reread), which just seems odd. I wonder if this book had a different editor than the others or perhaps was on an accelerated timeline and just didn't get as much close attention as it needed? I guess it's also possible that I was just paying more attention to that kind of stuff because I was already a little pissy about not liking it in the first place!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder
evareads18's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Fatphobia and Murder
jessiereads98's review against another edition
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Good, not great, but still worth reading. I really enjoyed the further exploration of Olympus politics which is what brought me back to this series. Eros and Psyche are likeable characters, especially Eros, even if they are a bit straight forward archetypes. Katee Robert’s writing is at times too simplistic and they have a tendency to repeatedly beat points over your head unnecessarily, rather than writing them in a way that feels natural. There’s also some places where there’s excessive or unnecessary detail such as every outfit a character wears, and every single thing they do including the car that gets them from point A to B. Overall, a compelling story with good fat representation that I think could’ve been crafted a bit better. I’ll continue with the series because Robert’s world building and concept of the city of Olympus and it’s politics is fascinating and well done.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting
Minor: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail