I definitely liked the music element and the outrageous costumes, especially since Lucifer looks like a female David Bowie. This book reminded me of a theistic version of the Fables series, which is a lot like this, only with fairytale and folkloric characters. Because the gods have basically become jaded as fuck and they don't really give a shit about what happens to Lucifer as long as she doesn't make trouble and spoiler their 2-year debauchery stint. Lucifer gets blamed and Laura is determined to see her freed, but her interviews with the other gods- with the help of a nosy and well-meaning trans reporter named Cassandra (uh oh)- end up going. She starts out at a concert for the embodiment of Amaterasu, where she's spotted by Lucifer and given a VIP tour of the back, only to end up being witness to a murder that ends up landing her in a court where she witnesses another murder. Our biracial heroine, Laura, is fascinated by the gods. And what better way for a god to be worshipped in the modern age than to play at being a pop star? One only needs look at footage from a Taylor Swift or BTS concert to see the quasi-religious mania. Every 90 years, the gods reincarnate as humans but then they only live two years before dying again. X meets Y descriptions are so overdone, but this is literally like American Gods meets Jem and the Holograms. It's messy, it's shallow, it's weird, it's violent, it's mean. I'm in Team Loved It but I can definitely see why it isn't for everyone. Half my friends loved it, half my friends hated it. I honestly wasn't sure about what to expect with THE WICKED + THE DIVINE. Come for the art, stay for the LGBT+ fan-service.
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