I picked this up because I was seeing it evvvvverywherrrre. I had low expectations because I am a contrarian and, in general, I don’t trust people’s opinions of books (except for Pajiba readers’, of course.) But this book was so good! It immediately became my new buy-it-for-everybody’s-birthday book. First, this book has it all: mythology, complex heroines, curses, potions, love, betrayal, exotic lands, gods and humans, bloodshed, magic, and monsters. It also has an awesome female protagonist, “empowered” in the best way, by which I […]
Sometimes the stories we know are actually just the footnotes in another (better) story.
Circe by Madeline Miller