-Copy won from Goodreads Firstreads Giveaway 
 -Signed copy from BEA 
 (I had two copies) 
 This was interesting! I feel like I haven't been a enjoying a lot of mythology retellings lately because they're not fitting right in the modern world for me but Kendare Blake did a great job of making those two time periods/worlds meet and mesh. 
 I loved the sarcastic personalities of Athena and Odysseus and company so I think that had a lot to do with it... Plus, I actually learned a little more mythology too! 
 See the FULL review at my blog, The Book Addict's Guide! 
 I actually feel like I've been getting a bit burned out on mythology retellings lately because I really just haven't been able to connect with them, but ANTIGODDESS seemed to turn that trend around! I think I finally figured out that the thing I wasn't connecting with on other mythology retellings was the fact that the old worlds of the gods and the modern day worlds weren't meshing well together for me. What I loved about Kendare Blake's gods is how well they actually DO fit in the modern world and how much personality they really have! 
 Thinking back on all of the mythology retellings I've read, I feel like there are two ways they can go: Gods pop up in modern times out of nowhere from ancient times OR gods have been on Earth this whole time and are now technically thousands of years old and still look like teens (because let's face it, we're reading YA and they're gods. Of COURSE they'll keep the young adult look). ANTIGODDESS falls in the latter with gods like Athena, Hermes, Apollo, and more roaming the Earth since the ancient times. The best part about them is that yes, they are ancient, but they're also VERY modern at the same time. Modern clothes, modern slang, very modern language... And modern sarcasm. I was lucky enough to be on the ANTIGODDESS blog tour and hosted Kendare for a guest post on the humor in her books -- It was one of the things that attracted me so much to ANTIGODDESS -- and it was wonderful how that sense of humor and sarcasm really helped build real characters for me. Each character really came to life for me, making the book so easy to get into. 
 I loved how the ancient world and the modern world really blended. If there was a grudge from 2000 years ago, you better believe that god is still holding a grudge now... and has been all this time. Personality traits stick for all those years. Romances are revisited. I felt like I got a real sense of history. I'm starting to realize that I connected more with ANTIGODDESS because we get chapters from Cassandra's POV AND Athena's. Instead of tell, tell, tell to Cassandra what happened and why things are the way they are, we get to see Athena's life. I think this was a big case for "Show, Don't Tell" -- something I somehow didn't realize until I sat down to really think about it and write my review -- but it totally makes sense. For the retellings I've read so far, the POV is usually from the character who is finding out about the gods, not who IS a god, so they get a lot of information from other sources. It was really nice to have that background from the main character instead of having to learn everything from someone else and be told as information versus getting that as a piece of a character's history. I definitely felt more involved! 
 I also really liked the story that was going on in this book. It was interesting to see the gods losing their power versus a human interacting with the all-powerful gods of Olympus. It was definitely and interesting twist and I loved figuring out the mystery of why they were dying and how it was even possible. I mentioned the characters before, but I'll say it again -- they really felt real with all of their flaws, the sarcasm, the humor. I was actually more of an Athena fan than a Cassandra fan, just because I'm a sucker for banter and the gods totally killed it. Plus, OH HI Odysseus. Who knew Odysseus was so attractive? Be still my demigod-loving heart! 
 Even if you're burned out on mythology for the time being, ANTIGODDESS is still a fun retelling and blending of the old and new and totally worth picking up! I'm so glad I was on the blog tour to push me to read it when I was once hesitant about another mythology retelling. I had a blast reading it and I absolutely love Kendare's characters!