Gods Behaving Badly
Books | Fiction / Humorous / General
3.2
(288)
Marie Phillips
A highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century. Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated 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 upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.
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Author
Marie Phillips
Pages
288
Publisher
Random House of Canada
Published Date
2009-02-24
ISBN
0307371271 9780307371270
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Found this very interesting and entertaining. The idea that the Greek gods are still out there (acting horrendously as the Greek gods do) but are less powerful because people don’t believe in them anymore, is amazing to me. There is definitely sexual content so keep that in mind if that’s not for you. "
Veronica Em
"Four out of five stars, this is a pretty good book. The comedy is nice, but the ending was a little expected."
Beaux Tibideaux
"Kind of a Gods of Olympus meets "The Real World". Gods are out of fashion; no longer worshipped they share a a rickety house in Britain while continuing to exercise their out sized appetites. This has near disastrous consequences for an ordinary young woman unlucky enough to attract Apollo's interest, leaving her would-be boyfriend to scheme with Diana, Athena and Hermes to rescue her from the Land of the Dead. A pleasant, humorous page turner but not especially memorable."
Lesley Williams
"It seemed like it should have been written by a teenager furtively typing away on the school computer during English class as an edgy, self-insert fanfic, not an adult woman with actual credentials. Everything and everyone was awful except for the super endearingly quirky and cute mortal friend/obviously destined couple, whose only flaws are not being conventionally attractive or successful and being just too nice and humble for their own goods. The takes on the gods were super tired and shallow. It was like she read a Wiki article and made it edgy. Awful book"
Jacob Klein
"gods behaving badly’s premise—greek gods in a modern world—is overshadowed by the normalization of sexual assault. "
jo
"there’s something about this concept that i really love. also apollo immediately passing out during That Scene was hilarious. "
c w
claire w.
"Interesting idea, entertaining as a light, fun read."
Cathy Sears