Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
copyright = 2007
pages = 292
source = library
date completed = 09/12/08
This is a wonderfully amusing book about the Greek gods living in modern London. They have lost most of their powers from their golden age and live in a run-down house that none of them will either fix up or clean. They have new jobs--Artemis is a dog-walker; Apollo a wanna-be TV psychic; Aphrodite a phone-sex operator, etc. To liven things up, Aphrodite talks Eros into casting an arrow at Apollo and he falls in love with Alice, the mortal woman who eventually becomes their housemaid. Alice however, has feelings for someone else and when Apollo can't have his way with her, he has Zeus (kept in the attic as a mental case) take revenge. The rest of the book is about how Artemis finds Neil (Alice's real love) and how he has to be a hero to save Alice. In the meantime, the gods also figure out why they are losing their powers and how to fix it. Overall it was a very fun, quick read.
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