Despite the focus allegedly being on them, Ariadne and Phaedra are given no real personality outside of 3 men in their lives, and never have any hobbies, ambitions, or friends. They sort of care about each other when they remember the other exists but aren't concerned at all about their mother. In this book, men are all Evil (unless raised by a group of pure selfless women) and all women are passive victims. At least Hera gets to be an actively petty goddess (though even that's because of Zeus' wrongdoings), though the other goddesses who are petty and cruel in original mythology have been totally removed from the story. (ampelos just tripped)

Dionysus is ridiculously written, with no regard for the actual duality of his personality in antiquity. The author also clearly doesn't understand animal sacrifices in ancient Greece, evidently thinking the whole point is "gods love cruelty mwa ha ha"

There's really nothing here worth reading but I'll give it 1.5 stars because at least it's not as actively heinous as it could've been.