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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There’s not enough context given, so it sometimes comes off as nonsensical statements that only confuse instead of heighten mystery and anticipation of finding out more. I didn't know what to expect, I knew there was LGBTQ representation, that there would be magic and a Greek mythology background. Human sacrifice is quite a difficult subject to read but this tale is told sensitively and compassionately. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

You can’t take an integral part of Greek history and culture and divorce it from its roots to tell a shallow, anachronistic “love story” because you read some Madeline Miller and thought it sounded cool.

Prince Mathias’ betrothed is a ‘Princess of Athens’ and she names her parents as the King and Queen of Athens. The characters at times have some depth but do really seem largely superficial most of the time - and I found it difficult to really care about them or identify with them. To end the killings, twelve princes must first die in Poseidon's watery domain, at the hands of the girls they sentenced to death. Faithfulness" is often compromised in adaptation (for good or for ill) for the sake of reconfiguring the story to audiences beyond those the work was originally intended.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Mathias is weirdly passive and honestly pathetic, with no reason for me to even consider caring about him. She angrily stares the prince in the face as he wrongly condemns her to die, and that’s the last we really see of a personality except that she’s really mad and impatient at some points and made of wood every other time. This is a fabulous tale of 12 murdered maids from Homer's Odyssey, when I started it I had no real expectations for it but absolutely loved it. I slugged my way through the Simarillion so I’d have context and history for one of my favourite series ever.