pickThe Voyage Home (Women of Troy 3), by Pat Barker (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Premise: A Trojan nurse accompanies the doomed prophetess Cassandra to her fate as Agamemnon‘s entourage returns home.
Review: In a landscape overstuffed with retellings, once again this effort from Pat Barker elevates the genre to its full potential. It was jarring not to have Briseis as our point-of-view character in this third book. Cont.
😢😠 The contrast from the last quote I posted.
pickAnother amazing book in the series, and the last for now 😭 As always, the crew went through some wild trials pet sitting for Hectate! 🤣
I put the first book of The Heroes of Olympus on my hold list at the library 📚🥰
Book haul!!!
pick51/100 I know it's an old saying, but honestly, I could listen to Stephen Fry read a phone book, if they still existed. His narration really brings the story of Odessus to life, it's often quite funny when it's not being tragic, as Odessus has one misadventure after another, both helped and hindered by the various gods of Olympus. I know this is the last book of his Greek Mythology series, but I love to see him tackle Norse mythology. 5 🌟 read
pick4 Stars • Elektra by Jennifer Saint retells the Trojan War through three women: Clytemnestra, betrayed by her husband Agamemnon‘s sacrifice of their daughter; Cassandra, a Trojan princess cursed to foresee doom but never believed; and Elektra, their daughter, torn between loyalty and revenge. It‘s a vivid, emotional take on myth, exploring female strength, trauma, and war‘s toll.
#Elektra #JenniferSaint #Bookish #GreekMythology
Bookish Pair: For a fun recent novel that uses Euripides‘s take on this saga as a backdrop, Ferdia Lennon‘s Glorious Exploits (2024). 9h