Selene has spent her life protecting women. That she's the former goddess Artemis just means her life's mission has been a little longer than most. Still, roaming the streets of a modern New York City, her powers are weak; most people don't believe in the ancient gods anymore after all. Then Selene happens on a woman who's been murdered and mutilated. She seeks to root out the murderer. Her investigation leads her to a classics professor at Columbia, who pledges to help avenge his friend. But Selene's old life may be more intwined in her investigation than she thought. 
 This book was like a mix of the Da Vinci Code, Percy Jackson, and A Discovery of Witches. Some good stuff here, but characters, mystery, and romance could be a little flatter than I would have liked. The pacing slows down, especially at the end. By that point the action needed to be even more immediate, because I had lost some of the wind in my sails regarding the murder, which I started out totally enthralled by. Weird picky style complaint, but it was really jarring for me to go from 3rd person to 1st person flashbacks, especially as Selene/Artemis didn't feel that close, immediate as a reader. 
 There was an evident focus on the murder investigation here, with an attempt to show character through their choices. And sometimes it worked. And sometimes it didn't. Selene always felt cold and far away, which was fine. But her character shifts never felt rooted. Yes, Artemis is a strong, independent, often cold, woman. There was attempt to begin to add some depth here, but it never felt fully fleshed out. 
 There were so many potential ways to do reveals here to make it exciting, even when revealing gods to each other. But it often felt kind of underwhelming. In the same way, I kept waiting for more Greek parallels or modern twists on the old tales, ways these common tropes could recur and mutate. There were hints of this in how the different gods had manifested themselves in the present, but I was hoping for a more adult spin the way Percy Jackson morphs the tales I guess. But, I guess Percy Jackson has already done that anyway.