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A review by cambriawrites
Circe by Madeline Miller
3.0
There were a lot of beautiful sentences. That’s about the most I can say for this book.
I was hooked on Circe’s character in the beginning. A flawed female MC, a lesser god, rejected by her family, unsure of her place in the world? Here for it.
I expected a glorious arc of Circe embracing her witchery and cunning and turning it against all who dare scorn her.
And I was gloriously disappointed.
Sure, we get glimpses of that Circe here and there which kept me hanging on. But then it’s periodically destroyed by a series of passerby to Aeaea who info dump us with Greek mythology and somehow convince Circe that all she ever wanted was to be a mother and experience true mortal love.
Seriously? I didn’t know I was reading a Greek-infused Nicholas Sparks novel until it was too late.
The ending in particular was infuriating. She basically gave up everything for a narcissistic mortal in the beginning of the book and then did the same at the end of the book but for a marginally better mortal man.
I wanted to turn everyone, including Madeline Miller, to swine by the end of it. And I wouldn’t feel guilty about it dammit!
I was hooked on Circe’s character in the beginning. A flawed female MC, a lesser god, rejected by her family, unsure of her place in the world? Here for it.
I expected a glorious arc of Circe embracing her witchery and cunning and turning it against all who dare scorn her.
And I was gloriously disappointed.
Sure, we get glimpses of that Circe here and there which kept me hanging on. But then it’s periodically destroyed by a series of passerby to Aeaea who info dump us with Greek mythology and somehow convince Circe that all she ever wanted was to be a mother and experience true mortal love.
Seriously? I didn’t know I was reading a Greek-infused Nicholas Sparks novel until it was too late.
The ending in particular was infuriating. She basically gave up everything for a narcissistic mortal in the beginning of the book and then did the same at the end of the book but for a marginally better mortal man.
I wanted to turn everyone, including Madeline Miller, to swine by the end of it. And I wouldn’t feel guilty about it dammit!