Ugh! Have you ever read anything so perfectly you—your style, your voice, your humor, even your weirdly disparate interests—that you that know4 stars.
Ugh! Have you ever read anything so perfectly you—your style, your voice, your humor, even your weirdly disparate interests—that you that know, deep down in your heart of hearts, that you could have written it? Should have written it? Then you, my friend, will understand my current pain, because that is exactly what I felt upon reading this bit of Greek mythology-infused YA flash fiction.
The story begins with Lydia, a modern-day teen, attempting to sneak out of her father’s house one night for a bit of harmless fun: friends, music, dancing, etc. When she opens her bedroom window, however, she’s greeted not by the fresh air and freedom she expected, but by a literal shower of gold that quickly resolves itself into the shape of a teenaged boy—Pêlos—who explains that he is, in fact, a Greek god come to seduce her. He then promptly trips over her computer cords and suggests that she might be more sexually attracted to him if he took on the form of a swan or a bull. Needless to say, the seduction doesn’t quite go as planned. Or does it?
I love—love! love! love!—everything about this story: the way it brings the Greek gods and their old-fashioned values into decidedly modern times, the YA perspective, the fish-out-of-water humor . . . everything! It’s all so perfectly up my alley that it kills me—KILLS ME!—that I didn’t think of it first. Why didn’t I think of it first?! UGH!!! ...more
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