The Immortals

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Brodsky, Jordanna
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone but her dog. But when a woman's mutilated body washes up in Riverside Park wearing a laurel wreath, Selene finds that she can no longer hide in the shadows. As more women are threatened, Selene is forced to embrace the one name she's tried hardest to forget -- Artemis. For who better to follow the killer's tangled trail than the Goddess of the Hunt herself?"-- Provided by publisher.

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What a letdown. submitted by eknapp on March 15, 2016, 7:59am I like urban fantasy. I love Greek mythology. A story about the Mistress of the Hunt working as a PI protecting abused women and solving murders in modern Manhattan should be solid gold.

Instead, The Immortals: The Goddess of Virgins Finally Gets Lucky is a sneaky, disappointing, hackneyed bait-and-switch romance novel. "Her eyes were drawn against her will to the hard planes of his chest." "She expected the smell of his sweat to repulse her. To her surprise, it didn't." Blerg. I made it through a solid 200 pages before giving up on my high hopes.

The gods-living-among-us display no sign of immortal wisdom or perspective. Attempts to paint them as more than human are superficial: some are mildly technophobic, they don't take pictures because their loved ones never die, etc. But you can't tell from Artemis's speech or mannerisms or thought patterns that she's anything but a horny, moderately misanthropic virago.