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murphyc1's review against another edition
4.0
Read it fifteen years ago or so... I liked most of the stories, as I recall. I've always been a sucker for stories about gods and goddesses in the "real" world.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
2.0
Overall, I have to say this collection was a bit of let down. A good portion of the stories were boring and predictable. Even "The Sword of Herkales" one could see coming a world away.
I couldn't get though about 4-5, and one of the ones I got though, "The Arrows of Godly Pleasure", I really didn't like. There was something about the ending, a suggestion that all she needed was a real man and a good screw and forget about her own choices.
The best story is Tanya Huff's, about a problem of the marriage of Hades. It was extremely funny and had good little touches. Watt-Evens story too had the right amount of humor.
"To Hades and Back" was funny simply because of the interplay between Zeus and Apollo as well as the refence to Clinton (a positive one, if you care about those things) at the end. While Wheeler's "The Harpies Discover Sex" was predictable, it was very funny and had some good touches.
I couldn't get though about 4-5, and one of the ones I got though, "The Arrows of Godly Pleasure", I really didn't like. There was something about the ending, a suggestion that all she needed was a real man and a good screw and forget about her own choices.
The best story is Tanya Huff's, about a problem of the marriage of Hades. It was extremely funny and had good little touches. Watt-Evens story too had the right amount of humor.
"To Hades and Back" was funny simply because of the interplay between Zeus and Apollo as well as the refence to Clinton (a positive one, if you care about those things) at the end. While Wheeler's "The Harpies Discover Sex" was predictable, it was very funny and had some good touches.
chronographia's review
2.0
Update: this went from unmemorable to terrible about midway through. Either overburdened with 1990s pop culture references, or badly written romance (because Artemis totally does sexyfuntiems, right?), or the bluntest declarations of war on The Patriarchy - the whole thing just needs to crawl under a rock and not show its face again.
(That Athena, goddess of war and invention, rides a motorcycle - which I am told by a knowledgeable source is the wrong type for her - is probably the best modern mythology you're going to glean from this.)
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