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ajbookworm 's review for:
A Thousand Ships
by Natalie Haynes
“I have picked up the old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight. I have celebrated them in song because they have waited long enough.”
I didn’t have a deep knowledge of Greek mythology before this book, and the list of characters at the start intimidated me a bit. But the story was so easy to fall into, and after some work learning how to pronounce all the names and places, I was hooked. It was like taking all of the myths and tales from the Trojan War and it’s cast of characters, and turning them to the other side of the coin. Who were the women, mothers, wives, queens and slaves, all these untold stories that fit into the blank spaces around the men’s tales? I absolutely loved this epic set of stories.
I didn’t have a deep knowledge of Greek mythology before this book, and the list of characters at the start intimidated me a bit. But the story was so easy to fall into, and after some work learning how to pronounce all the names and places, I was hooked. It was like taking all of the myths and tales from the Trojan War and it’s cast of characters, and turning them to the other side of the coin. Who were the women, mothers, wives, queens and slaves, all these untold stories that fit into the blank spaces around the men’s tales? I absolutely loved this epic set of stories.