Also, stop profiting from disability and using it as a moral high ground (this is directed to someone who replies to every low rating with vitriol + ad hominem): you do not and cannot represent every disabled, neurodivergent person.

LIES WE SING TO THE SEA is a furiously stunning story of staring down the consequences of love that is chosen, and daring to leap in anyways. At 8% in, I was already tired of the countless diversions, so I just had to browbeat myself into not caring so that I could just read. so like, apart from the already admittedly pretty bad optics of a British person positioning herself as an expert of some sort on Greek classical tradition (give back the fucking Elgin Marbles then, why don’t you!

She obtained her MEng in Computational Bioengineering at Imperial College, London, and recently graduated with her MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge. 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. Leto is like no other heroine I've read, she is passionate, strong and genuine, she only wants revenge for what she suffered. Less than a page is dedicated to explaining Leto’s fraught relationship with her father and I kid you not it is a copy-paste of Katniss and her mother’s relationship minus a sister. The novel is told from three different viewpoints - that of Leto, Melantho and Mathias, the Ithaca prince.

There are several other names that happen to also be prominent in AC:O and I am side-eyeing the author HARD.As for the mythology aspect of it, I'm not really acquainted with the Greek myths so I'll leave people who know the stories and have read the Odyssey ( yes, the Odyssey Miss Underwood. I slugged my way through the Simarillion so I’d have context and history for one of my favourite series ever. It’s funny some people always assume I’m doing Classics or English, and I say, ‘I don’t know anything about Classics, I Googled everything! Oh and let's not forget how she said that this has never been done before when I can think of at least two other Odyssey retellings (actual ones this time). ALSO ALSO, it’s one thing to say that Odysseus probably wasn’t 100% faithful to Penelope (fair enough), but saying he was “sleeping his way around Greece” is.