A review by mollylazer
The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber

3.0

I'm a little ambivalent about this one. The choice to tell the myth of Prometheus with only two direct references to the Promethean myth and to turn the retelling into one dealing more with Christian mythology is one that actually works. It's as though Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, also from the Canongate series, were allegedly true. The results seem, if not realistic, then at least believable. I know this is supposed to be satire, though I didn't find it funny. Was it supposed to be funny? It was an interesting read, at least.