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A review by mir_i_am
Helen of Troy by Margaret George
3.0
DNF'ing about 150 pages in. There are two plot points at war here and they don't make any sense, and I don't feel like reading 600 pages of it. The two plot points are:
- Helen knows there's a prophecy that she will be the cause of a major war with lots of loss and death, and she does not want this to happen.
- The story is basically suggesting that the main reason Helen would leave Menelaus is because she's not sexually satisfied by him. That's fine, but, it's in direct conflict with the first bullet point, above. She would know better than anyone that leaving the King of Sparta for a Trojan prince would definitely cause a major war with lots of loss and death. I would need her to have a much larger motivation than sexual satisfaction to resolve with the fact that she's going to cause a major war.
This is not going to be worth the read, for me. It's not validating my theories about Helen at all.
- Helen knows there's a prophecy that she will be the cause of a major war with lots of loss and death, and she does not want this to happen.
- The story is basically suggesting that the main reason Helen would leave Menelaus is because she's not sexually satisfied by him. That's fine, but, it's in direct conflict with the first bullet point, above. She would know better than anyone that leaving the King of Sparta for a Trojan prince would definitely cause a major war with lots of loss and death. I would need her to have a much larger motivation than sexual satisfaction to resolve with the fact that she's going to cause a major war.
This is not going to be worth the read, for me. It's not validating my theories about Helen at all.