Review: Worth every penny
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
If you've ever asked yourself, "What would happen if someone wrote a fairly stock modern fantasy story about superheroes and greek gods, but without the usual pretense that there's any practical difference?"This.  This is what would happen.A young girl is raised in unrealistic isolation by a parent somewhere in the range between creepily sociopathic and alarmingly psychopathic; upon being dramatically abandoned to the outside world she immediately finds one set of gods vying for her services and another set that seem to change whether they want to kill, marry, or form an a barbershop quartet with her from scene to scene.  She meets strange, mysterious forces of nature, heaven, and hell, and a couple extremely unhelpful prophets, and resolves most of the involved conflicts via classic face-punching.  The call is issued, she refuses, murder ensues, she accepts.Basically, a modern superhero book that foregoes the usual postmodern deconstructive boringness in favor of the simple, borderline brilliant deconstruction technique of tossing the screwy family dynamics and general crazy of bronze age mythology back into the tale.Also, if it's not clear, it's really very entertaining.  And notably distinct from most of the books that link here in writing style and characterization, so it's got that going for it.Also, as of this review, it's priced 0.00$.  Buy it, you cheap sot.