A review by whosjessanyway
Elektra by Jennifer Saint

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.75

This was my first experience reading anything by Jennifer Saint. This is a book about female rage, about revenge and the cycle of violence, about “a war fought by men and blamed on women” told through women’s eyes. 

Jennifer’s writing was very compelling, I loved every minute of it. This was not my first greek mythology retelling, but it was the first one to make me fall in love with the myths all over again, driving me to watch documentaries and giving me flashbacks of other greek stories, back from when I was in middle school. 

I think this book sent me right into my greek mythology reading era, and I am glad it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape and War