Okay, honestly, this is the type of book that I normally wouldn’t admit to reading. I’m not really even sure why I picked it up. I was looking for something “light” to read and something brought this to my attention, so here we are. Ugh… I’m embarrassed to say that I really enjoyed “A Touch of Greek” [[cringe]]
The premise is that Super-Hunky Greek God Triton gets caught sleeping with the wrong woman. Zeus gets ticked, and due to Triton’s history of womanizing he decides to teach Triton a lesson. He strips the young god of his powers and sends him down to Earth. He can only get his powers back if he can convince a mortal woman to love him. And just for fun, this woman ends up being blind, so she cannot even be attracted to his godly good looks.
Yeah, yeah I know – the whole idea just makes me want to barf too, but I still liked it!
Now I’m not going to sit here and tell you that the writing was awesome. In fact, I thought I was reading a middle grade book to start, and ageless Triton spoke like a middle-schooler in the early chapters. He was totally unbelievable… but I pressed on because “something” and I’m not even sure what, held my interest.
By the end, I was really rooting for Triton. I got scared when I should be scared, and happy when I should be happy, and really nervous when the God of the sea was not there to stop a natural catastrophe.
Come on! Fall in love with him already! Don’t you know thousands will die if he doesn’t get his powers back???? Geesh!
[Snicker] I am soooooo laughing at myself. Despite this books flaws, it was genuinely entertaining. I turned off my ever-present internal editor and just enjoyed a light, fun to read story.
I’ll subtract one star for the hokey beginning, and poor dialog from Triton in the early chapters, but I can forgive the rest for the genuinely fun read this was. And the writing seemed better as the novel progressed too, so it is quite possible that the tone of the writing in the early pages was a plot device that was just lost on me.
Rocket Science this is not, but sometimes ya gotta just relax and read something just for the fun of reading, you know what I mean?
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