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blancwene's review against another edition
Wow. It takes serious skills to make THE UNDERWORLD boring. I tried, I really did (I am a sucker for anything involving Greek myths), but this book was so dull that I finally gave up halfway through. DNF.
carriekellenberger's review against another edition
1.0
A friend gave me this book because she knows I have a strong interest in mythology. Suffice to say, it was awful. I could barely make my way through it. Utter drivel.
kristi_asleep_dreaming's review
5.0
Greek myth redone as a fantasy romance, with the Olympians really just very long-lived mages. Same set-up as Bull God, but that seems to have been marketed as fantasy and this as romance. I'd like to know what the mages really are: the reference to common people as 'natives' suggests they're aliens, and I think there was something in Bull God about their arrival... But the common people can have mage-gifts, too, and Ariadne was made long-lived. Maybe one of Gellis's other books explains it better.
I really liked the touch of making Demeter a suffocatingly overprotective mother, calling her daughter Kore (girl) instead of naming her, refusing to allow her any independent life. That was implicit in the myth all along, and it's nicely developed here.
I really liked the touch of making Demeter a suffocatingly overprotective mother, calling her daughter Kore (girl) instead of naming her, refusing to allow her any independent life. That was implicit in the myth all along, and it's nicely developed here.
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