A review by hopegreen
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

2.0

as someone deeply familiar with the source material, perhaps my expectations were too high. however, i think that this book’s desire to be a comprehensive retelling makes much of the content feel clunky and forced. then, despite being a self-proclaimed feminist retelling, the emotional core of this anthology is almost always driven by the abhorrent actions of men rather than the heroic actions of its all-female cast. and so, aside from calliope’s brilliant and agonisingly short interludes and a vividly drawn cassandra, i’ve found myself a bit disappointed.