A Taste of Divinity

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As a high school student, I was absolutely obsessed with the story of Cupid and Psyche. It struck some chord in my all-too-literate self, a chord so strong that when I made it to France six years later and stood in front of the famous statue by the same name, I was breathless and teary all at the same time. Imagine…a god falling in love with a mere mortal. It was almost as satisfying as the local basketball star falling for the slightly nerdy drama club president. Which never happened, by the way, but it’s okay. I’m over it. Really.

However, in A Taste of Divinity, four stories are linked together by the realization of just such a dream – a god recognizing the beauty and value in a mortal and falling in love. This premise can be extraordinarily powerful when tapped the right way. Some of the stories in this anthology manage that, while the others fell flat. And not only was the fantasy a flop at times, the whole was far less than the sum of its parts due to horrendous editing, which knocked down the anthology’s grade lower than the average of its individual stories.