In Marie Phillip’s debut novel, the Greek gods have fallen on hard times. They live in a decrepit, filthy, cramped flat in London, and their powers are waning. When Aphrodite convinces her son Eros to make Apollo fall in love with a mortal, she sets into motion a course of events that involves death by lightning, the extinguishing of the sun, and a trip to the underworld. The translation of the gods’ powers into a modern context is entertaining (Dionysus owns a nightclub and Artemis is a dog-walker) and the mortal characters, Alice and Neil, are well-drawn and charming. --Katy S. Request Gods Behaving Badly from the Saint Paul Public Library.
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