I'm not outside of time. I know that if I take too long writing my review, there will be some sort of timeout and I won't be able to save it. I have lost past reviews that way though I have remembered what I'd said and recreated them anew and perhaps better. It's like a volcano wiping out the Just City and leaving behind a legend.

This book, and its predecessor, are like a Platonic Soap Opera. You get the philosophical arguments, the emotional explosions, the ancient metaphysics. The Gods are kind of like superheros, with their ancient personalities, but in a new scene. If you like that kind of stuff, and I'm embarrassed to admit its appeal to me--a sort of lifestyles of the historically famous, or real housewives of the classical world--then this is for you. I can't imagine what the 3rd book will be about. Maybe some sort of prequel since Zeus seems to have shown up. like a God out of the machine, to wrap up the plot at the end of this one. I'll try and resist it for a while, but I imagine I'll end up reading it.