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A review by sydneypeca
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
1.0
So here’s the thing about this book: you don’t have to write a Greek retelling or bring Greek mythology into todays world and keep it as vulgar and harmful as it’s original content is. If you’re going to do a retelling why not, I don’t know, change things around a bit? The amount of incest caught me off guard. Should I have been as shocked as I was? Probably not. After all this is based off Greek mythology. However, I still wasn’t prepared for sentences that fully described a nephew sleeping with his aunt.
On top of this the casual mentions of r*pe and other abuse with no real sensitivity to the reader was appalling. I don’t know. I guess for me if I’m reading an original myth then I don’t see the need to bring in the gods abusive natures like that whilst having them as a main character. Clearly Apollo is not meant to be the villain of this story and is under a love spell but I still was shocked to see how freaking casual this story was about mentioning r*pe.
Halfway through I just didn’t get why this story was being told. The more interesting tale would be to scrap the entire “love story” plot and focus solely on Artemis and her journey losing her powers and considering what death means. That would have been a far more appealing story than whatever this was. This was just bad and triggering and wow.
On top of this the casual mentions of r*pe and other abuse with no real sensitivity to the reader was appalling. I don’t know. I guess for me if I’m reading an original myth then I don’t see the need to bring in the gods abusive natures like that whilst having them as a main character. Clearly Apollo is not meant to be the villain of this story and is under a love spell but I still was shocked to see how freaking casual this story was about mentioning r*pe.
Halfway through I just didn’t get why this story was being told. The more interesting tale would be to scrap the entire “love story” plot and focus solely on Artemis and her journey losing her powers and considering what death means. That would have been a far more appealing story than whatever this was. This was just bad and triggering and wow.