Review by emergencily - Circe

4.0

i think the writing style & prose was stronger in this book than her other one (song of achilles) and it felt a little less YA
an interesting retelling of circe's story with a feminist slant that expands her character beyond the "evil temptress witch" trope and interrogates how gender roles & power dynamics in greek mythology shape her origins as a powerless nymph under her father's patriarchal thumb, and her transformation into a powerful, defiant witch cast out to the fringes of society grappling with her ostracization & new motherhood