Final Rating: 2/5 Stars
Pages: 148
Edition: Kindle
Time Read: 11.15.14 - 11.20.14
Summary:
"Heather, a young American girl, is visiting her college roommate, who now lives in Rome. While partying in a local nightclub, she's picked up by a man who looks like he was created in the image of a Greek god. Her initial impression is correct. He’s one of the last surviving members of the Greek pantheon. After hooking up with him, Heather is forced to join the culmination of a two-millennium-long war between that pantheon and a clandestine sect of monks within the Catholic Church, itself led by perhaps the most infamous figure in Christian history. Heather and Apollo embark on a continent-spanning effort to collect what remains of the gods to engage in the final battle with the monks opposing them. But the fate of the battle is changed by the intervention of a mysterious military organization…"
Summary:
"Heather, a young American girl, is visiting her college roommate, who now lives in Rome. While partying in a local nightclub, she's picked up by a man who looks like he was created in the image of a Greek god. Her initial impression is correct. He’s one of the last surviving members of the Greek pantheon. After hooking up with him, Heather is forced to join the culmination of a two-millennium-long war between that pantheon and a clandestine sect of monks within the Catholic Church, itself led by perhaps the most infamous figure in Christian history. Heather and Apollo embark on a continent-spanning effort to collect what remains of the gods to engage in the final battle with the monks opposing them. But the fate of the battle is changed by the intervention of a mysterious military organization…"
Review:
I wanted so badly to love this book.
The premise was absolutely perfect. Greek gods in modern times? Sign me up!
The problem with this story lies in the execution. This book needed to go through an editor a few more times before it should have been published. There are a lot of issues with words not having spaces between them, some sentence structure problems, small things like that.
The biggest problem lies in the writing. Almost the entire book is told, not shown. There is entirely too much detail in some incredibly mundane parts, and then in the epic final scene twists are thrown in to the book left and right. A situation which should have lasted so much longer than it did for how much happened was over within a few kindle pages. The entire book lead up to this final scene and it really felt rushed.
The characters are just so inconsistent. Heather is this super smart, badass chick; then she becomes a giant crybaby who can't handle anything. She flips back and forth between the two for the entire book, mixed with a bit of horny teenager at the strangest part. Honestly, who thinks about sex when they could potentially die at any minute? There is zero character development because of this. With the entire story being told to us, it feels like the characters never had a chance to become more.
Overall, this book reads like a poorly written fanfiction.
This was given to me as a free book by the author for an honest review.
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