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A review by talkingchicle
Athena's Child by Hannah Lynn
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I absolutely love Greek mythology so I immediately requested this and I was not disappointed at all. Medusa is one of my favourite characters withing Greek mythology so I know her story well. I really enjoyed this retelling of her tale. It was short, devastating and beautiful. The writing was good and was pretty true to the original.
I would have liked to have this focus solely on Medusa and her perspective rather than being a bit of a secondary character compared to Perseus in her own story. I liked the feminist vibes that was coming through in this book but again it felt like they were just in the background. The character development wasn't really there either.
Overall I enjoyed the story!
I absolutely love Greek mythology so I immediately requested this and I was not disappointed at all. Medusa is one of my favourite characters withing Greek mythology so I know her story well. I really enjoyed this retelling of her tale. It was short, devastating and beautiful. The writing was good and was pretty true to the original.
I would have liked to have this focus solely on Medusa and her perspective rather than being a bit of a secondary character compared to Perseus in her own story. I liked the feminist vibes that was coming through in this book but again it felt like they were just in the background. The character development wasn't really there either.
Overall I enjoyed the story!