The Games Gods Play

This book came up in my "Unlimited" list and the premise sounded interesting. The Greek gods live on earth and every so often each of the 12 main ones chooses a mortal to enter a "game" of quests as their proxy. The first person narrator is a woman is her early 20's who is chosen by Hades to play/fight for him so he can become the King of the Gods. So far so good. Turns out though that the book is way too long! The first quests are exciting, yet they soon get repetitive. I also found the competing characters hard to track and remember who was who. And then there's the unlikely romance between the narrator and Hades which did not feel authentic at all. I thought I was getting a thriller here. Turned out it was a romance novel with a long and often hard to follow group of supporting characters.