A review by araehop
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Heroic women, surviving (or not) after war, loss, enslavement, and trauma. The names we have heard before as side characters to the Greek and Trojan heroes are now introduced from the center of their own experience. A very good read, and not over dramatized or tear jerky. Their stories feel both real and inevitable, and she does not linger on the trauma but gives the women complete identities in which their circumstances are only a piece. The gods and goddess are also present and their actions keep the women's stories under the blanket of fate and inevitability, which makes it somehow easier to take.
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