Lies We Sing to the Sea: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! New for 2023, a sapphic YA fantasy romance inspired by Greek mythology, for all fans of The Song of Achilles

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Lies We Sing to the Sea: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! New for 2023, a sapphic YA fantasy romance inspired by Greek mythology, for all fans of The Song of Achilles

Lies We Sing to the Sea: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! New for 2023, a sapphic YA fantasy romance inspired by Greek mythology, for all fans of The Song of Achilles

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As a professor of literature, I do understand why this admission would be upsetting to some, seem lazy and appropriating to others and even wreak of privilege to still more.

Again, this makes me think the author reads a lot of medieval fantasy (or watches too much GoT) and doesn’t know that all that stuff doesn’t actually translate into Ancient Greece. While some bisexuals may feel comfortable using the term sapphic to describe themselves that's not true for every bisexual identifying person. Leto walks past a tapestry depicting Achilles’ death and yes, it does show him being shot with an arrow in the heel. At various points in the book it is implied or outright stated that everyone on Ithaca knows of the yearly sacrifice, that no one really knows about it, and that word of the sacrifices has spread across the Mediterranean. A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids.

The exact parameters of the curse are never explained and while it is implied the yearly sacrifice keeps Poseidon appeased, it doesn’t really elaborate on why Ithaca still suffers (in the vaguest terms, we know the kingdom lacks money and food, but this is never truly investigated). That's the fate for Leto, but, instead, she wakes up to a mysterious island with a mysterious girl and not completely human. 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). Sarah Underwood’s writing is stunning as she weaves a compelling story of love and revenge in a mythological setting.

yes ancient Greek sexuality and contemporary opinions thereof were ‘complicated,’ but not in the way someone whose favourite book is The Song of Achilles would understand. A lovely, lyrical fantasy which takes the fate of the hanged maids of the Odyssey and weaves something brand new. Why show important scenes and develop the plot and characters when you could just end the chapter for the sake of a stupid, trite opener to the next chapter?Perhaps this is because this is more of a mythology book than a fantasy novel - and from this mythological aspect, it was an interesting read. I was annoyed while reading the author didn't even read the Odyssey while also writing a book inspired by a part of it.

After all, Phillip Pulman has suggested that everything gets better and the first is unlikely to be your best. I have various translations; there are parts that are very beautiful and readable, but it’s so long, and written in a ‘prose-y’ way that’s kind of impenetrable. And then there’s the hidden island with a barrier that makes it invisible to the outside world, where not even storms can get through the protective barrier - uh, Wonder Woman, anyone? Odysseus and Penelope are very clever, there’s layers and layers of deception and trickery, and it’s delightful.

Seeing white Anglophones publishing their “refinements” of foreign myths (Greek in this case, another example would be Ancient Chinese myths), and so many white academics occupying African American sections on bookshelves, upsets and demotivates me dreadfully. I don’t care that it’s “sapphic” and queerness shouldn’t be used as a shield against legitimate criticism. Thank you to HarperCollins Children’s Books/HarperTeen and NetGalley for providing an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I am emotionally WRECKED - Lies enchanted me through and through, and beyond being without a doubt one of my favourite reads of the year, I think it'll stick with me for a long time. the audacity of this British bitch to get a six-figure advance for a “retelling” of a book she HASN’T EVEN READ.

Girl, I have sixteen translations of it, and twenty-three of The Iliad, you're not going to impress me with bragging about owning that many translations if you don't read them.But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there's only one way the curse can be broken.



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