A review by anousha_reads
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

adventurous dark emotional sad tense
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

SO so wonderful! I loved getting to see all sides of the war and truly seeing it from the perspectives that simply don't get shared. It asks all the hard questions that the bards don't answer, "What happens to the women and children who survived after the Greeks won the Trojan War?", "What about all the wives who lost their husbands and children who lost their fathers?", etc. I feel like I have a much better understanding on it now, and I actually preferred this to any other recounting and the Iliad and Odyssey themselves. It covers the entire story (for the most part), this time including the women.
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