Neon Gods

I'm not going to bother giving this one a long review, because it doesn't really deserve it. Like, there are enough reviews from everyone else that I really don't need to wax poetic on this one. Not that it deserves it.

Neon Gods is a Hades/Persephone retelling except the characters are all named after the Greek Gods. You'd think it was just a modern day retelling, because they have phones and cars and guns, except no. These characters have no powers. They're supposedly the rulers of Olympus but we see no real way HOW they're ruling? It's all glossed over in favor of so much smut. The smut IS well written, I will give the author that, but there is so little world-building here that the ‘retelling' aspect truly feels like an after thought that.

If you're gonna write a retelling, for the love of the gods, please include SOMETHING of the original myth in there? Especially if you're using the ACTUAL NAMES of the original gods, and calling the setting Olympus. Hades rules the ‘lower city' but there's frequent references to the ‘underworld'. Is that what he rules or no? What is his job, exactly? What does Zeus do? Why is he King if they have no powers? [enraged screaming] I don't even know how to classify this one bc no one has powers, but it is a retelling. Is paranormal romance? Is this contemporary romance? WHAT IS THIS!!!

Sooo yeah, this gets three stars purely bc the steamy bits are well done. Otherwise, this is the laziest retelling of the Hades/Persephone myth out there.