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reviewed Neon Gods by Katee Robert (Dark Olympus, #1)

Katee Robert: Neon Gods (Paperback, 2021, Sourcebooks Casablanca) 4 stars

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over …

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Im not going to rate this because I feel like I was led to expect things the book never promised. I am NOT a romance reader. I find a lot of romances extremely boring. This is just Fifty Shades with characters that vaguely pay homage to the Greek myths. I think when people suggested this they thought I would appreciate the world building, but the book didn’t seem to care much about that, and it otherwise has exactly the same things I don’t like in every other cis-hetero, male dominated, romance Ive ever read. I was led to believe it was somewhat innovative but it’s the same tropes, the same nonsense gender roles, the same lack of real commentary on anything, the same focus on things I will never care about. Other than the fantasy-esque elements (which barely count as fantasy) this is a repeat of a story I’ve already read several times and didn’t like.