2023/108: House of Odysseus — Claire North

2023/108: House of Odysseus — Claire North

It has been a while since he has had a fight - a real fight. He had forgotten the taste of it, the flavour upon his tongue, and now here it is. Here she is. Enemy. His enemy, pure and glorious and simple and true.
He had not thought he could be so thrilled to look upon a combatant and see that she is female. [loc. 3357]

Ithaca, the first in Claire North's 'Songs of Penelope' trilogy, was a refreshingly different perspective on Greek myth: witty, colloquial and profoundly feminist. Ithaca was narrated by the goddess Hera. Volume two, House of Odysseus, is narrated by Aphrodite, and I suspect that the concluding volume will be narrated by Athena, for reasons to do with Paris and Mount Ida.

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