Circe

Epub, 400 pages

English language

Published April 29, 2018 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-55633-0
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4 stars (1 review)

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect …

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A brilliant retelling

4 stars

I remember absolutely loving Madeline Miller's previous mythological novel, The Song Of Achilles, when I read it way back in 2012, so I had high hopes for Circe - such high hopes that I decided to wait for some of the launch fanfare to fade so that I wouldn't be unfairly starting this novel with overly high expectations. Unfortunately, in setting it aside, I allowed my Circe ebook to vanish into the depths of my ereader so it's only now, some three years after buying it, that I've actually rediscovered and got around to reading the story. Oops!

I didn't find Circe captured my heart in the same way that The Song Of Achilles did and I don't know how much of that was down to the book itself and how much was my moods at the time of reading each of them. Circe is still a brilliantly told story …