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July 15 |
Book Review: A Greek God at the Ladies’ Club |
A Greek God at the Ladies’ Club by Jenna McKnight
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
While I give this a shelf of “Greek Mythology”, it is very very far from any sort of true mythology. But given the context of the book, I had to add it (especially since I will have more of these coming).
Darius is a made-up god, one of the few-and-far-between children of Zeus and Hera. You would think that this would count for something to the mortals in the book; anyone who knew anything about mythology would know just how select a group this was: Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia, and often Eris. This alone rather irked me, as though the author could not be bothered with any real research. But it is a story and within it, the god has been banished for the past 3,000 years. Enough time, by the author’s estimation, to have the mortals all forget who the God of Gems was. Darius who? Execute the first Head-Desk.
You know, I can’t even fathom going into much about the book.
I got increasingly frustrated by the portrayal of the gods and goddesses that were popping up within the story. Maybe centuries of change had done them all a bit of… well I can’t say ‘good’. Hermes was a wuss. Aphrodite wasn’t the proud, vain creature she should have been. Hera… wanted to force her son into marriage with a goddess of her choosing and have little grandbaby gods running around? Wait. What? Execute Head-Desk number… I actually lost count at this point.
If you want fluff, no real romance, and no absolutely nothing about Greek mythology… you might enjoy this book. But I warn you now: if you have even the most basic of knowledge about the gods, stay far away from this.
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