Tina Folsom has been in my twitter feed for months. I knew she was an adult novelist and I had meant to get around to reading her work long before I actually did. I generally enjoy reading adult "romantic" novels, but this one especially caught my attention. A Touch of Greek is the first book by Tina that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Greek mythology has always been of an interest to me personally and Tina's modern twist in this love story is simply perfect. Tina has an uncanny ability to put more story than sex into this book, making it much more enjoyable than other books in its genre. It has the perfect mixture of comedy, love, mystery, and sex.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
Zeus sends Triton, son of Poseidon, to Earth after he catches Triton messing around with one of his gals. Triton loves his philandering ways and Zeus tells him to make a choice (which Triton doesn't hear since he wasn't paying attention); either go to Earth and make a woman fall in love with him or take a trip to Hades. Following the misbegotten advice of his friend Eros, he chooses option one. Zeus strips Triton of all his Godly powers and tells him the only way to get them back and return home is to get a woman to fall in love with him not for his looks, but his selflessness and kindness.
Triton is determined to prove that he can get a woman to fall in love with him as he has done so many times before, earning his way back to Olympus. With the help of Dionysus, they come up with a plan to obtain a female, who just happens to be blind. When this plan ends (hilariously I might add) before it really even starts, Triton heads to the bar without his buddy to try meeting a nice girl the old fashioned way. Lame pickup lines and booze.
Enter Sophia, beautiful, busy, woman, who is trying to remodel her childhood home into a bed and breakfast. She's so not looking for another shallow, egocentric, male counterpart when her friend drags her out to a local watering hole to do just that. As soon as she meets Triton she pegs him as her typical conceited man, but she's also fully aware of the initial attraction and his amazing good looks. Turning him down flat and leaving him on her doorstep all alone forces Triton to take another look at his path. He can't stop thinking about Sophia and he now must conquer this female. A freak accident renders Sophia partially blinded and Triton swoops in to take care of her, all the while she is unaware of who he truly is. Triton's resolve to get Sophia to fall in love with him is full of pitfalls and moral decisions he's never had to make before.
I simply adored this story and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
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