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lilith89ibz 's review for:
Stone Blind
by Natalie Haynes
I’m wary of new Greek mythology retellings because of the recent trend of making them into “dark romance”, distorting the source material so much in the process that at that point they should have just written something else. Natalie Haynes didn’t do that, for which I’m delighted.
The characters feel true to the myths, with their humanity enhanced by Haynes’ witty dialogue and meta commentary. I am particularly fond of the snakes POV. I do wish she’d had a bit more compassion for Perseus, who is simply a sheltered teenage boy with the emotional range of a stone, pardon the pun, doing his best. Which is tragically bad. Perhaps he had more of his father in him that was good for anyone, but I would have hoped Dictys would have had more influence in his ability to feel any sort of empathy for anyone beyond himself and his own mother. I think Haynes could have made him a little less sociopathic without changing the story.
The characters feel true to the myths, with their humanity enhanced by Haynes’ witty dialogue and meta commentary. I am particularly fond of the snakes POV. I do wish she’d had a bit more compassion for Perseus, who is simply a sheltered teenage boy with the emotional range of a stone, pardon the pun, doing his best. Which is tragically bad. Perhaps he had more of his father in him that was good for anyone, but I would have hoped Dictys would have had more influence in his ability to feel any sort of empathy for anyone beyond himself and his own mother. I think Haynes could have made him a little less sociopathic without changing the story.