moondal514 's review for:

The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North

4.25

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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I was very pleasantly surprised how much I liked this book, especially since Telemachus reappears in the narrative and one of my biggest gripes with this series is how much I hate his characterization. I was dreading a bit to see how

Odysseus killing the maids

would go down in this series, but I found North’s ultimate portrayal and handling of it to be quite well done, in my opinion. I also liked how despite everything, North managed to portray convincing homophrosyne between Odysseus and Penelope, which gives her a leg up over every other Penelope retelling I’ve seen. The side characters all shine very well in this book, especially Penelope’s women. Overall, I found this book to be a very satisfying conclusion to this series