I loved this book and to be fair, it’s my jam. It focuses on the Greek Goddess Hera, who is typically villainized in Greek Mythology as Zeus’s jealous wife. This shows her as a maligned woman who has just as much claim to the throne that Zeus took for himself, and with her marriage to Zeus as a move she had no choice in. She then spends millennia trying to protect not just her own name, but Zeus and the heavens from his destructive behaviour. It takes the reader through many well known and lesser known stories from Greek Mythology; the war with the Titans, Jason and Golden Fleece, the Trojan War, the story of Persephone’s abduction by Hades, the birth of Athena, the birth of Artemis and Apollo…actually, it maybe touches on all of them. It’s pretty grand, with a satisfying, if bittersweet ending.