A review by madireadssometimes
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

3.0

I couldn't give a Greek retelling two stars but I want to. I came for a feminist retelling and a new perspective and I left with disappointed. I'm bummed that Ariadne didn't get significant character development until part three. I really feel like Ariadne was just there while things were happening. During the original myth she chooses to save Theseus and help him in the labyrinth despite betraying her family. However I didn't feel that she chose to do that here, Theseus asks her to help him and she does. She simply did what she was told. Later she's complicit in her exile and doesn't yearn for anything other than what is given to her. She is so satiated with nothing. Ariadne doesn't make a decision that is influenced by someone else until part three. The ending of this book left me unsatisfied. This book just simply ends. No justice, no new perspective, no change made in the way the world is.