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Leto, daughter of the last Oracle, is one of the chosen twelve but she awakes from her hanging on a far away island in the company of Melantho, who tells her there is only one way to break the curse, Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca.
Underwood expertly weaves a tale about the inevitability of fate—and the love that makes us rail against it anyway. Here’s a particularly egregious example: The twelve girls sentenced to die are chosen by Poseidon by receiving a scale-mark along their necks.Faithfulness" is often compromised in adaptation (for good or for ill) for the sake of reconfiguring the story to audiences beyond those the work was originally intended.
I am especially interested in Greek retellings at the moment and will be reading a lot of them over the next few months, so expect a lot more reviews to come! My whole community of friends who love Ancient Greece are literally all queer/trans, and we unilaterally agree this is awful.The latest period this book could be happening during is 5th century BCE (as it's been 300 years since the Odyssey, which has been noted down in 8th century BCE) but these easily googlable things place it over 1000 years afterwards.