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Metamorphoses

Ovid

4.01 AVERAGE

the_cassie_case's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous informative mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

micklz24's review against another edition

3.0

It’s kinda hard to know how to rate a book like this, because it’s really just a collection of stories. I didn’t particularly enjoy it - but that’s probably simply because my mythology kick faded before I got to the end of the book. It was a little tricky to follow sometimes, and it’s harder to read because of its age, but regardless there were definitely some crazy and interesting stories in here, and I’m glad I stuck it out.

lys_anders's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beccaattiffanys's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

anastasiyak's review against another edition

3.0

read this book for a class. it’s very dense. i listened to it on audio which helped at first. but then there were so many characters and things happening i just couldn’t keep up.
it’s really interesting to see how things tie in with one another. ovid starts it with a creation story and also has a flood story in there.
also enjoyed the etymology stories that would describe short stories of how for example mulberries became red or the crow became black. they’re obviously not true but it’s interesting to read.
also saw a lot of ties to Shakespeare’s stories and characters. would be interested to read some of his stuff now having seen that. but also romeo and juliet existed way before shakespeare wrote about it.

slumberbee's review against another edition

5.0

Nothing beats a collection of myths! And Ovid manages to order them all to form a coherent story which you can follow along from Chaos to Rome, excellent! Thoroughly enjoyable, I only wish to one day read in the original Latin.