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Daughters of Olympus

by Hannah Lynn
Sourcebooks Landmark. Jul. 2024. 448p. ISBN 9781728284293. pap. $17.99. F
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This retelling of well-known Greek myth puts the tale of Demeter and her daughter Persephone into the hands of the women at its center, at the point where Demeter’s hero-worship of her brother Zeus brutally ends with his rape of her body and her innocence, resulting in Persephone. Then Zeus offers Persephone to Hades as his kidnapped bride. As Demeter brings endless winter to the world above, Persephone has a chance to take power at the side of Hades—if she is willing to step out from her mother’s long shadow and seize that power no matter how it came to be.
VERDICT Readers who enjoy mythic retellings, particularly those that tell these familiar stories from a woman-centric perspective, will be thrilled to find this classic myth seen through the eyes of the women at its heart instead of from the point of view of the male gods who barter and imprison them. Those who have flocked to the recent trend in feminist reinterpretations of familiar tales, like Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear and Medea by Eilish Quin, will want to add Lynn’s (Queens of Themiscyra) latest to their to-be-read lists.
Reviewed by Marlene Harris , Jul 26, 2024
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