A review by thepurplebookwyrm
SÍDH: Stories from the Women in Irish Mythology by Karina Tynan

hopeful mysterious relaxing medium-paced

2.75

I found this to be a pretty underwhelming, and ultimately disappointing collection of Irish mythology 'retellings'. There was next to no range to the kinds of stories the author chose to reinterpret; the female characters she chose to focus on were also almost all, invariably, passive individuals with little – outside of romance and motherhood – to give them pleasure and motivation in life. I would've liked to hear more about the female druids a couple of the stories mentioned in passing...

Outside of that: I wasn't a fan of the collection's opening stories, which mixed in Biblical shenanigans with the 'pagan' stuff, but kinda liked its closing story about Brigid.

The book's accompanying illustrations were... alright, not really my thing.
So yeah: barely worth reading once, and certainly not worth the price I paid for it. 😅