A review by kristi_asleep_dreaming
Dazzling Brightness by Roberta Gellis

5.0

Greek myth redone as a fantasy romance, with the Olympians really just very long-lived mages. Same set-up as Bull God, but that seems to have been marketed as fantasy and this as romance. I'd like to know what the mages really are: the reference to common people as 'natives' suggests they're aliens, and I think there was something in Bull God about their arrival... But the common people can have mage-gifts, too, and Ariadne was made long-lived. Maybe one of Gellis's other books explains it better.

I really liked the touch of making Demeter a suffocatingly overprotective mother, calling her daughter Kore (girl) instead of naming her, refusing to allow her any independent life. That was implicit in the myth all along, and it's nicely developed here.