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A review by eleniphant
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina MacLaughlin
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
- I see what the author was doing here and mad respect for how she doesn’t hold back on how fucked up a lot of these myths are and how they all sort of cycle around the violence and punishment of women. But at points I had a hard time finding the line of too gratuitous
- I wasn’t the biggest fan of the writing style, sometimes voice felt indiscernible between stories. The first person points of view didn’t help.
- some of the modernized takes and dialogues felt tonally awkward to read
- I think some could’ve used more depth, it was getting repetitive
- there were a few strong ones I really enjoyed though like the Iphis one and Eurydice
- and I like how the women are characterized and the tone is allowed to be raw and angry
- I was left uncomfortable by many but that also is the point so decently executed but my enjoyment really fluctuated with the stories
- I wasn’t the biggest fan of the writing style, sometimes voice felt indiscernible between stories. The first person points of view didn’t help.
- some of the modernized takes and dialogues felt tonally awkward to read
- I think some could’ve used more depth, it was getting repetitive
- there were a few strong ones I really enjoyed though like the Iphis one and Eurydice
- and I like how the women are characterized and the tone is allowed to be raw and angry
- I was left uncomfortable by many but that also is the point so decently executed but my enjoyment really fluctuated with the stories
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Incest