OMG!! If you loved the irreverence of Blood of Hercules, this is for all the fans of satirical Greek retellings! What a wry, witty and modern retelling of the Greek myths - Phoenicia Rogerson is absolutely masterful in her take-two of Greek legends. Aphrodite is absolutely marvelous - selfish, self serving and completely irreverent!! She is a femme fatale in the greatest way!! i cannot get enough!
The book does not follow a traditional rote but instead follows a journal like renditioning of the key events that shaped the world. I absolutely adore how Aphrodite is infused with teenage angst and uncertainty and Zeus - he's the brat who was raised and praised for being the King. Aphrodite navigates in a world, where her family is incarcerated, her best friend is chained to a rock, and she is forced to wed the unwanted son of Zeus. How she copes in this man's world and claws her way up to the head of Olympus forms the rest of the tale.
I drank in this tale as a famished reader, polishing it off in a couple of days. The tone and delivery of the legend, makes the reading so much more enjoyable.
My Olympian thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and Netgalley for this fabulous opportunity!
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