The Lord of the Lightning, David Butler

[Zhangchiahou]

I found this book to be really worth reading as an adult, even though in some contexts it is billed as a children's book.

PLOT: Unusual mix of modern physics, such as quantum science and Greek mythology. Totally plausible for a ScFi book. Add to it a disabled classics student, a clairvoyant cat, a Jewish and a black friend, a journalist uncle, an Aborigine UN rep plus a scheming capitalist and Greek gods who turn out to be aliens inadvertently lost on Earth several millennia ago and you have a potent brew. The villain, it turns out, is not that capitalist baddie but someone else unexpected. Sign of a good plot, I dare-say.

PACE: Though not quite a page turner, it was hard to put down. There was no noticeable lapse in the plot moving forward.

PERSONA: A truly believable heroine in a wheelchair; supported by many other 3-D characters. Even the Olympian 'gods' were no cardboard cut-outs.

PASSION: As noted in PLOT, the purposefully assembled mix of characters enabled the author to express his personal passion for the "underdog". And their eventual triumph over both the ugly capitalist, the villain and some anti-human Olympians expresses the author's personal passion.

[Artemisia]

This sound very interesting indeed! Thanks for a thoughtful review.