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A review by mythaster
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
3.0
3.5 stars. An enjoyable mythological romp with Suburban AU Greek gods - and who doesn't want those? Too many characters with too many stereotypes, and too much of a distant third-person British sort of style, for real emotional immersion, but still, enjoyable. Greek god clichés are still usually fun. (Eros was delightful, though, and I'm wondering if his Christian conversion was any kind of shoutout to Till We Have Faces. But that's just me being a bit obsessive about TWHF.)
It's an adult book and it deals with Greek gods, so of course sex is involved, more so in the first half than the latter. A little distasteful for me, personally. But to counterbalance that, we have Artemis sharing a sizable portion of the narration, and who doesn't love Artemis? Not to mention she's essentially the patron saint of asexuality, and it's nice to see Artemis's, say, carnal repulsion dealt with in a way that doesn't make her out to be weird. The whole scene with her talking about it with Neil, and Neil being very understanding, was one of my favorites. I'm hugely biased that way, I guess.
Nothing groundbreaking here, really, but still a lot of fun. If you ever feel the need for Suburban AU with your Greek myth retellings, and you don't too terribly mind liberal use of The F-Bomb and snippets from Aphrodite's phone sex hotline, this is a good pick.
It's an adult book and it deals with Greek gods, so of course sex is involved, more so in the first half than the latter. A little distasteful for me, personally. But to counterbalance that, we have Artemis sharing a sizable portion of the narration, and who doesn't love Artemis? Not to mention she's essentially the patron saint of asexuality, and it's nice to see Artemis's, say, carnal repulsion dealt with in a way that doesn't make her out to be weird. The whole scene with her talking about it with Neil, and Neil being very understanding, was one of my favorites. I'm hugely biased that way, I guess.
Nothing groundbreaking here, really, but still a lot of fun. If you ever feel the need for Suburban AU with your Greek myth retellings, and you don't too terribly mind liberal use of The F-Bomb and snippets from Aphrodite's phone sex hotline, this is a good pick.