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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
It honestly didn’t take me long to get into this book and once the story started it continued to keep your attention and be interesting! As someone who is just getting into Greek mythology I really enjoyed this book!
inspiring
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Taking one of the few Greek love stories that feature the woman having a happy ending where she turns into a goddess and is happily married, and instead depicting her as a suffering, neglected housewife that has a slow and painful death in the end with no happy ending or godhood status is feminist, actually.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Suicide
Moderate: Rape
ARIADNE WAS WRITTEN BEAUTIFULLY.
This reviews containg spoilers!
For the portrait of herself as a young woman, as an abandoned bride, as a wife and, especially, as a mother. As a modern woman who never felt the desire to have children (actually, I fear it), seeing Ariadne's relationship with her children warmed my heart and made me rethink about the sacred vocation of motherhood and the unique connection between mothers. It's a beautiful way to dedicated your love, your time and abilities. I felt love for her children and I fell in love with Dionysus and their relantionship. My favorite books are the ones written through a woman's point of view because I always feel like every thought and feeling could be my own. And I felt that while reading Ariadne.
My only disappointment was Phaedra character development and subsequent death, not because I think it didn't make sense, but mostly because it broke my heart to see such as inteligent, astute young woman lost to delusion. The end was heartbreaking as well but it wrapped the story up in a sensible manner, although I wish we could've seen more of her relantionship with the maenads.
This book completely deserves its praise.
This reviews containg spoilers!
For the portrait of herself as a young woman, as an abandoned bride, as a wife and, especially, as a mother. As a modern woman who never felt the desire to have children (actually, I fear it), seeing Ariadne's relationship with her children warmed my heart and made me rethink about the sacred vocation of motherhood and the unique connection between mothers. It's a beautiful way to dedicated your love, your time and abilities. I felt love for her children and I fell in love with Dionysus and their relantionship. My favorite books are the ones written through a woman's point of view because I always feel like every thought and feeling could be my own. And I felt that while reading Ariadne.
My only disappointment was Phaedra character development and subsequent death, not because I think it didn't make sense, but mostly because it broke my heart to see such as inteligent, astute young woman lost to delusion. The end was heartbreaking as well but it wrapped the story up in a sensible manner, although I wish we could've seen more of her relantionship with the maenads.
This book completely deserves its praise.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love my Greek ladies. I really didn’t know much about Ariadne besides being the sister of the Minotaur, but picking this up lead me to do a bit of reading about her stories. I really appreciated how this book worked in multiple different versions of her story!
It’s more of a 2.5. It was okay. It was honestly exactly like the myth with no originality. There was no twist or personality given to it the same way that A Song of Achilles and Circe had. I was quite bored throughout this whole book. It was definitely like pulling teeth just to read this book. I’m a big Greek mythology lover, I even did the actual myth of Medea as my director’s notebook, but this book was just not it. Why write a book if you’re not gonna put some personality into it? This book seemed more of taking the myth of Ariadne and her sister and putting it into modern words, rather than giving it a modern twist. Would not recommend this book. There are better retellings of Greek mythology.
2.5 rounded up to 3 stars. the book starts off strong but the end is jarring as Saint chooses to twist the end to the myth of Ariadne and Dionysus in which she has the least agency. Shame since the myths of Ariadne are the strongest lent to finish interpretation. Would rank higher except it's just one sad tale after another of predetermined terrible fate for the women of Greece.
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes