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27 reviews

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Istg Suzanne Collins you can’t kept doing this to me

Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry

adventurous dark emotional funny informative reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Big fan of whatever he did to Odysseus’ personality. Devious little gremlin

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

There is a fine line between consuming a book in one day and the book consuming you, but I’m legally blind so it’s still blurry to me.

Big fan of Penelope getting more and more sassy as the book progressed. Paris was also so funny during The Judgement of Paris.

Not something I’d usually read, simply because multiple povs stress me out and I prefer to follow just one or two people but I enjoyed it nonetheless! I was tweaking out when I saw that the book started at the end like?? How is this going to work?? But it did??

Leave my girl Helen alone though.

Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Iphigenia’s story makes me so ill ☹️☹️ I like that Agamemnon was somewhat redeemable in this version though.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Idk… I don’t… like Achilles… and the ages of some characters didn’t add up with miller’s timeline. It was still good though!! Made me a little teary eyed.. but it didn’t leave me inconsolable like I had hoped 😓

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

There were certainly some choices in this that I didn’t 100% agree with!! I could just be a little stupid but I found the writing style a small bit hard to follow. I am however a Clytemnestra Stan so I did still enjoy this book 🤞🏼🤞🏼

I didn’t like Leon being interested in both Iphigenia and Clytemnestra. I think it would have worked better if him and Iphigenia weren’t a thing.

Circe by Madeline Miller

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“So, you’ve been with my former lover…and my son?”
-Penelope, probably

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

adventurous dark funny informative inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The Polites erasure /j

Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I HATE THIS BOOK SO MUCH I WANT TO THROW IT INTO A LANDMINE AND WATCH IT EXPLODE (affectionate).

Every Gift A Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

RAHHHH I LOVE THIS BOOK SERIES SO MUCH I CANT BELIEVE ITS OVER 😭😭😭😭

Guys trust me I’m Maeve Chambers in a different universe !!! Did you know that the crane wives actually wrote ‘curses’ and ‘here I am’ about her??? Trust me they jumped in front of my car to confirm !! 

I could not tell you if this book was literary good or anything all I know is that I would die for every single one of these character (the main ones though Dorey can go off herself xxx)