I loved the writing style. The prose was lyrical and beautiful. I wasn’t aware of the Ariadne’s myth in great detail so this retelling made a good impression on me. The dialogues between Ariadne and Dionysus were very tender and heartfelt. 

However the pacing of the book was an issue to me. It was very hard to go through the middle part of the book. Since it’s a retelling so I will talk about character development a bit, in the sense that Ariadne had none. I expected her to do more and really become her own person. Instead her journey always seems to be revolving around men who disappoint her in the end. This book was marketed as feminist retelling but nothing was delivered in regard to that.