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A review by lindsaysofia_25
Electric Idol by Katee Robert
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