Format: Ebook 

Starting with the caveat that my star rating is based on my own enjoyment and shouldn’t necessarily be read as a comment on the quality of the book. 

This book was great in that it reflected the impression it gave of the gods: chaotic. However, this wasn’t what I wanted. There was so much jumping around between characters and locations that I never truly settled into the story. There were so many characters and while there was a list at the front of the book, when reading on the Kindle, it’s not so easy to flick back to the start and work out who someone is. Half the time I spent entire chapters trying to remember who someone was and work out what their relation was to the story. And they were short chapters, so not a lot of time to waste doing that. 

This is billed as Medusa’s story. It’s right there on the cover – Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story. And yet, Medusa felt like a sidenote. She was a character who had things happen to her, rather than a character doing things in her own right. We got chapters from the perspective of an olive tree and the snakes, neither of which I particularly loved but at least these stuck with me – Medusa herself did not. 

I just didn’t care enough to get truly invested in the story. I respect what it was trying to do but it’s another book club read I’d have put down if not for needing to talk about it.