A semi-happy ending

So I think I've found one of the better stories with a happy ending. Finishing the story of Perseus I found myself, for once in this book, not feeling bad for the hero. This so far seems to be the only story in which the hero has his cake and gets to eat it too. This was refreshing because I have pretty much steeled myself to the fact that everyone in this bool is going to die horribly or be transformed into a tree/animal, so nice to see the good guy kill 200 people at his wedding and live to take down the Tyrant. Also after reading the blurb at the beginning of the book I had to google the statue of Perseus by Cellini to see if it lived up to my expectations, which it does.