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mrs_galaxywanderer091825 's review for:
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
Oh how sad this book made me! I wanted to love this book because I love history and mythology. I knew all these stories but had never heard of a collection of all of them before Ovid's Metamorphoses. When it turned out to be one of the few Roman novels still around, I knew I had to read it. Starting the epic, I was very excited but rapidly became disenchanted. Personally, I dislike that with so many characters and events that happen in each of the 15 books that there were no subtitles or notice of a change in the stories. It made the overview in the beginning of each book pointless because I'd always forget what story I was reading. The change from one story to the next, while staying in the epic style, ended up confusing me. I constantly had to reread sections because I was not sure if I had missed anything. The stories that held my attention the most were in Volume II, but I still didn't enjoy reading this epic as much as I have others. There were stories I really liked but I had already read them from Greek Mythology or found them elsewhere. My frustration grew so much that I had to write myself helpful description notes on the side in a completely different copy of the book. I'm glad to cross this book off of my "read before I die" list and that I'll never have to read again.