Artemis, goddess of the hunt, walks dogs for a living. Apollo, god of the sun, music and prophecies, fails miserably as a tv psychic. Aphrodite passes the time as a phone sex operator when she is not shagging any of the other gods. Powers weakened, and long forgotten by people, the once mighty Greek gods are cramped into a shabby house in modern London.During the taping of his doomed tv show, Apollo falls in love with Alice, a cleaning girl sitting in the audience with her geeky friend Neil. He tries to charm her with poetry and song when Alice ends up hired to clean the gods' house on a regular basis. But Alice and Neil are secretly in love in each other, they are just too shy to confess. So when a spurned Apollo causes the death of Alice by mighty thunderbolt, Neil bravely travels to the underworld to save her and the world.
Gods Behaving Badly was good light-hearted fun for me, especially since it followed from a heavy read in the form of The Naked and the Dead. I breezed through it within a day, chuckling at the jokes and quirkiness of the story. It is a little predictable but which romantic comedy isn't? It plays out like a movie with the right amount of humour, drama, and feel-good factor, and sometimes that's all we need.
73 out of 100 ninja earwax missiles.
3 comments:
The misdemeanours/misbehaviours of the gods remind me of Tom Holt. :-)
And... looks like you beat me to reviewing a campy romance! Keke
Yah, but there aren't as many things going on as in Holt's stories *mind boggles at the thought of Snow White and the 7 samurai*
SW and 7 samurai was a bad example. Even for me, it was a bit hard going, and I am a TH fan. I think you should give it another chance.
Tom Holt rocks! :-)
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