DNF

For being Medusa's story, she was awfully absent from it...

I had read Natalie Haynes' "A Thousand Ships" and I hadn't liked it much, but having so many different characters made sense because it was about the women of the Iliad... This story was OF Medusa rather than Medusa's story. All the chapters follow characters who are more or less linked to her story, but was there any point in writing Athene's birth? Andromeda arguing with her mother? Metis being raped?

I was genuinely curious to see a feminist retelling of Medusa's story but she just wasn't present at all, despite being on the front cover.

The writing wasn't necessarily *that bad* but it didn't really transport me, the dialogues were meh at best, and the characters...boring or annoying. Especially Athene and Perseus. I don't understand why make men seem more cruel and pathetic than the original myths make them out to be - is this feminism now? Putting down men? I'm not really familiar with Perseus' stories but I checked quickly and although he tricks the Graiai, he gives them back the eye and tooth, he doesn't throw them in the sea to condemn them to an eternity of blindness and hunger...

Anyway, I don't want to waste time reading beyond page 190 when Medusa is erased of her own story.