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Rivals in Love and War

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I would like to thank NetGalley, Dan O'Sullivan and Cranthorpe Millner Publishers for Providing Me with This Arc!
I really enjoyed the initial premise of this book. The reading was quite easy, the book is incredibly fast paced with immense mythology references packed into less than 200 pages. My only criticism of this book is really the fact that it is so short and so rushed. I would love the book to be longer, slower and to deepen the various characters mentioned, although I understand that this would be difficult given the amount of myths that are mentioned by the goddesses throughout their autobiographies. My favorite part of the book was Annex II in which the author reflects on the interference of the gods and goddesses on the life of mortals and the impact it has on human free will.

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I love a Greek retelling but have never read any from the perspective of the triad of Goddesses before. It was interesting to see the same events but from their very different views on how it went down. I have to say, I didn't enjoy the way Helen was portrayed in this book but I appreciate everyone has different opinions on that. The appendix notes at the end were very interesting and informative, as was the reference list.
Overall, a very enjoyable short read.

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I really wanted to love this book but didn't enjoy the format of it. I enjoyed the concept of giving voices to these goddesses but the execution of it wasn't really great.

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I really enjoyed this retelling of the Trojan war. The writing was very poetic and beautiful. I could not put this book down!

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An interesting retelling of the Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus and Aeneas. However, I can’t help but feel the market for stories about Greek myths, and especially the Trojan War has become over saturated. I would read another book by this author if it was about something else.

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So this was actually a rather fun read. There have been quite a few Greek mythology retellings in recent years - particularly from the perspective of female characters. This seemed to me to be in a similar vein, but on the whole, more lighthearted in its approach.

It was unusual to hear the myths being shared from the perspective of this triad of goddesses, and to hear their version of events that have often been described quite differently in previous versions of their telling.

Recommended to those who enjoy reading about Greek mythology and its pantheon of deities. It gets 3.5 stars.

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This was a really good read. The Greek stories told from the point of view of 3 of the goddesses with lots of different characters and stories weaved through the narrative. It was highly engaging all the way through, interesting with nice short chapters and no waffle
The women’s voices were animated, fun and kept everything fresh while giving us lots of exciting myths
Recommended for anyone interested in mythology

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc

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