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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
4.5⭐
Beautiful and captivating! Loved the journeys of our female protagonists and hearing their voices as they told their stories of love, heartache and tragedy
Beautiful and captivating! Loved the journeys of our female protagonists and hearing their voices as they told their stories of love, heartache and tragedy
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed the writing of this one way more than Saint's Elektra, however I still struggle with her use of extra-convenient POVs that come and go, seemingly only to serve the narrative gaps that would be there otherwise.
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Personally, I found most of the characters one-dimensional
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-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:
No
3.5/5. I went into this book wanting something more akin to Circe and was slightly disappointed. The pacing was a bit off, and I found the ending abrupt and upsetting. Not a bad book, just a story that wasn't written for me. Rounded down because of the ending. There's had to have been a better way to end that story than with what happened.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I wanted to like this book more than I did and unfortunately found myself comparing it (unfavorably) to Madeline Miller’s Circe, which I’m sure a lot of other people have considered, too. I think a major pitfall may be that the original story is simply a bummer. The author tries to criticize and escape a male centered perspective but struggles to achieve this. In my opinion it is reasonably well written but lacking some edge, character, or humor to take it to another level, which I think would’ve facilitated the feminist arguments the author was making. The connections to Medusa were the strongest points for me. Altogether a worthy effort but also one that left me unexcited. Perhaps that was her point?