M
@marginalianotes
Read Nov 28, 2024
“This isn't a retelling — it's a reclamation.”
Slow Burn
Miller does something extraordinary here: she makes Circe feel ancient and immediate at the same time. This isn't a retelling — it's a reclamation. Every page hums with the quiet fury of a woman discovering she doesn't need the gods' approval to be powerful.
The prose is intoxicating without being showy. Miller knows when to let silence do the work. The scene with the pigs is horrifying because you understand exactly why she does it.
Press Into Hands
“For anyone who's ever been told they're too much and not enough in the same breath.”
#reread#audiobook#comfort-read
Mythology RetellingAtmosphericMelancholyBittersweetHaunting
Comment?
G
@gothic_nightshade ✦PatronSep 18
"Reclamation" is the word I have been looking for. Every other retelling treats Circe as a side character in someone else's story. Miller finally gives her the narrative she earned.
R
@rivendell_reader ✦PatronSep 20
If you loved this, you need to read Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls. Same energy of reclaiming a mythological narrative from the women's perspective, but set during the Trojan War.
Where to Read
Bookshop.orgFind at LibraryAudible · 12h 21mFind Indie Store