The writing style is very basic - in fact, there was a very dramatic scene played totally straight that was written exactly as the "Shrek Fiona DONKEY! The author tries to sprinkle in little bits of exposition here and there (when she’s not beating us over the head with it blatantly), mostly character backstory, but it’s only ever the tiniest bit - a few words at the end of a paragraph, and then we don’t hear about it again. Frequently, Mathias notes the wealth of Athens and how marriage to his betrothed will bring some financial prosperity to Ithaca.

I’ve mostly given up on Greek myth retellings/reimaginings at this point, but since this is a book box pick, I figured I’d at least try it. The writing style and narrative voice alone has me enthralled, and I thought it an accomplished debut. Or, Melantho is trapped on an island for three centuries and just as Leto built a raft she's able to escape from Poseidon's eye. A sensual story about power and autonomy of self, and about how appeasing the gods means making painful choices. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.I am—by far—the hardest reader to please when it comes to Greek re-tellings because as a rule, I don't really read them, so you can trust me when I say this book is going to blow. With only hints to the original source material, the story is quite unique whilst maintaining the mythic feel. Also, stop profiting from disability and using it as a moral high ground (this is directed to someone who replies to every low rating with vitriol + ad hominem): you do not and cannot represent every disabled, neurodivergent person. before disappearing, or that she’s that one annoying kid in class who tells you “I know something you don’t know!

While some bisexuals may feel comfortable using the term sapphic to describe themselves that's not true for every bisexual identifying person.One thing I was very pleased about was the ending – I thought it might end all happily, but it didn’t, and I liked that. As someone who has studied Hellenic culture and history, including the Homeric epics, in my free time as a curiosity, it’s beyond reproach that this author delights in the fact that she never read The Iliad or The Odyssey before writing this retelling. A reclamation of a story from thousands of years ago, Lies We Sing to the Sea is about love and fate, grief and sacrifice, and, ultimately, the power we must find within. it’s almost impressive how, every time I think the worst possible YA twist on ancient Greek mythology has been dragged out from the bucket of slime from whence Madeline Miller crawled, something new manages to surprise me. That's the fate for Leto, but, instead, she wakes up to a mysterious island with a mysterious girl and not completely human.