2022/47: Circe -- Madeleine Miller

2022/47: Circe -- Madeleine Miller

'Take them to your bed.'
‘That is absurd,’ I said. ‘They would run screaming.’
‘Nymphs always do,’ he said. ‘But I’ll tell you a secret: they are terrible at getting away.’
At a feast on Olympus such a jest would have been followed by a roar of laughter. Hermes waited now, grinning like a goat. But all I felt was a white, cold rage. [p. 158]

Circe is one of the children of the sun god Helios and the naiad Perse. She grows up maligned by her father and her siblings, derided for her yellow eyes and thin voice.( Read more... )