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A review by rosebrown
Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Look at that cover, isn’t it beautiful?!
This is very short story or retelling of Penelope and Odysseus myth. To be honest I’ve not read anything about this myth before and know about odysseus only from The Song of Achilles, and didn’t like him much in that book. So this is my very first take on his myth and quite frankly, I like it. I find Penelope a intriguing character, a woman defending his honour and staying faithful to his husband not even knowing if he is alive or not. The concept of fate’s connected with weaving and disentangling of threads. That’s interesting. I would like to read more about this myth now.
This is very short story or retelling of Penelope and Odysseus myth. To be honest I’ve not read anything about this myth before and know about odysseus only from The Song of Achilles, and didn’t like him much in that book. So this is my very first take on his myth and quite frankly, I like it. I find Penelope a intriguing character, a woman defending his honour and staying faithful to his husband not even knowing if he is alive or not. The concept of fate’s connected with weaving and disentangling of threads. That’s interesting. I would like to read more about this myth now.