Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips is a comedic adventure involving London, Greek Gods, the underworld, and an unlikely hero.

Having lost the vast majority of their powers, the Greek gods are now forced to spend their lives in a run-down house in London, taking small odd jobs to make ends meet (Artemis walks dogs, Aphrodite is a phone-sex operator, Dionysus runs a rave club etc). Into this mix is dropped Alice a unassuming house cleaner, and Neil, an engineer who is in love with Alice.

The book is really good. Funny without being slapstick, Good characterization of both Down-on-their-luck gods and the mortals involved with them. They story arc is interesting, but this is at its heart a character piece, the plot more a way to show amusing vignettes of how the different gods act and how the mortals react to the situations.

I recomend this book to anyone who wants a fun, romantic-ish comedy/adventure, with a touch of classical greek mythology.

Christopher Moore writes some pretty fun books. I am unfortunately reading them out of order, but So far I have polished off The stupidest Angel and Practical Demonkeeping and I am working on The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove After that I think I will move on to his Vampire books.

These books are comedies, with a big helping of science-fiction or fantasy thrown in. Sometimes Zombies attack the small town of Pine Cove, sometimes it is an invisible demon, and other times a Godzilla-like sea-monster. The point is the small, quiet tourist town of pine cove has a lot of bad things happen there.
The books take a look at how the varied citizens of the town deal with these happenings, mostly dealing with the problem in their own skewed way.
These books are at the heart character pieces, Moore having populated the town with a large rouges gallery of oddballs (for example Howard, owner of H.P's Cafe, that serves such dishes as Shub-Nigguraths Dark Yolks of the Wood, or eggs benedict up to normal people).
The books are a fun light read, perfect for a road trip or day on the beach.