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A review by suzyshailesh
The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
2.0
Unfortunately didn’t like this book. I saw another comment on here say that it was basically trauma porn and I fully agree with that. There is so much cruelty and violence towards women in this book and that’s kind of all there is, so much so that I had to take a break in between reading it because it was getting to be too sad and heavy for me. The issue is that there’s nothing meaningful that comes out of all the cruelty - no positive takeaway, no freedom for its female characters, no moment of reckoning for Perseus and the other horrible male characters. Literally felt like 280 pages of watching women suffer with nothing to show for it.
I was hoping the ending of this book would maybe redeem it for me but no. *Spoiler alert* The ending just condemns Danae and Andromeda to a lifetime of managing Perseus and his temper (Danae literally says “We will manage him” to Andromeda) and ends with Danae’s HOPE that Perseus - the man who murdered Andromeda’d fiancée and then stole and raped her - will turn his focus on being a good husband to her and father to their unborn child. That’s CRAZY I fear.
I was hoping the ending of this book would maybe redeem it for me but no. *Spoiler alert* The ending just condemns Danae and Andromeda to a lifetime of managing Perseus and his temper (Danae literally says “We will manage him” to Andromeda) and ends with Danae’s HOPE that Perseus - the man who murdered Andromeda’d fiancée and then stole and raped her - will turn his focus on being a good husband to her and father to their unborn child. That’s CRAZY I fear.