A review by daffodiv
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

dark sad

...this was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches. So why do we?

A story that gives a voice to women, who are often ignored. Any feminist retelling bares the burden of choosing between pushing a modern feminist narrative onto women who may have never lived with those ideas or telling their story in their time (which can be discomforting). At times, it does feel like it's view these women through a modern lens (a feature, not a bug) but the author gives the women the breathe and depth of emotions that any women in any time would have felt. Are there ways to give a voice to the voiceless if they themselves do not know they are being silenced? Anyways, the novel was worth reading. There are some wonderful, reflective lines.