6.46k reviews for:

Elektra

Jennifer Saint

3.67 AVERAGE

sugar_book_fairy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

olioiloli's review

3.5

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

annamntlr's review

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

asterese's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

monse_canavezzio's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Terminé odiando a electra.

demsine's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

terimay's review against another edition

3.0

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Loved Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - finished it in a day. This didnt match the pace unfortunately. Still beautifully written

kat_tam's review

4.0

dark reflective 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

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Its an interesting tale of a family's curse being carried down over generations, in which many people's actions are dark and horrific, but which they justify to themselves as the righting of a wrong. Many cruel and unkind choices are made, but also explained in a personable way, and we see the emotional processes by which people choose to do terrible things. Its an interesting book, and a fascinating perspective of this tale of Greek mythology. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Kidnapping

darlingfarthings's review against another edition

3.0

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A good retelling should add value to the original. I’m not sure if this does.

danielaluna's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A retelling of a classic story in Greek mythology but with an emphasis on 3 women’s perspectives. I thought it was very well done! 
Similarly to other reviews, I think the title of the book is misleading because Elektra is more of a secondary character in this story except for the last 25% of the retelling but I thought the writing was still very good and it gave a good representation of what it was like to be a women during these times. Sure, it does repeat some of the same thoughts and sentiments over and over but I assume it was done so to emphasize the intentions, morals and thoughts of the main characters.