Name: Gods Behaving Badly
ISBN: 9780316067621

Marie Phillips

The twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse--and none too happy about it. Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning.... [and] a minor squabble between Aphrodite and A

A Novel

Gods Behaving Badly

Fantasy fiction. Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out... Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. GODS BEHAVING BADLY is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart.

Isabela H 

My journey reading this book was interesting because I would hit walls of complete disinterest in the story and it’s characters but then I completely binged the end. The style of writing took a moment to get used to, but by the end, I appreciated the subtle changes in perspective. I think I suddenly got very invested in the relationship between Neil and Alice and then Neal, Alice, and Artemis. Neil and Alice are literally one of my fav couples that I’ve read recently because their relationship is realistic but doesn’t sacrifice any of the romanticism to make it so. 
I would recommend this book to those who like Greek mythology and would love to see classic Greek lore translated to a contemporary time :)

daisy

“We all know you’re in love, but in case you hadn’t noticed, the world is ending. The love will keep.”

Kaylee Z

Not my favourite. I ended up giving it a 2.5⭐ because I only moderatly enjoyed the last half. The story tried to be deep at times but it was far too surface-level and kind of aggressive about it. It felt like the writer was writing fan-fiction about the Greek gods... and while there's nothing wrong with fanfic (I've written some myself lol) this just didn't do it for me. Neil and Alice were surprisingly the part I kind of enjoyed but only because we got a bit of a heroes journey from it... minus the training, and life lessons and action, etc. The humour was ok, the ending was kind of nice.

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Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ. Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning, and even turning mortals into trees--a favorite pastime of Apollo's--is sapping their vital reserves of strength. Soon, what begins as a minor squabble between Aphrodite and Apollo escalates into an epic battle of wills. Two perplexed humans, Alice and Neil, who are caught in the crossfire, must fear not only for their own lives, but for the survival of humankind. Nothing less than a true act of heroism is needed-but can these two decidedly ordinary people replicate the feats of the mythical heroes and save the world?

Gods Behaving Badly A Novel

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