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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This book has no redeeming qualities, the characters are boring, the plot is nonsensical, and there are so many factual and historical inaccuracies that make it abundantly clear the author read a Greek mythology retelling and thought, “I, who know nothing about Ancient Greece and never read the Illiad or Odyssey, can definitely do this, too”.

The author tries to sprinkle in little bits of exposition here and there (when she’s not beating us over the head with it blatantly), mostly character backstory, but it’s only ever the tiniest bit - a few words at the end of a paragraph, and then we don’t hear about it again. After all, Phillip Pulman has suggested that everything gets better and the first is unlikely to be your best. But one girl wasn't willing to go without a fight, and the curse she enacts on Ithaca will cause thousands more deaths, for generations to come.The combination of canon Greek mythology with the ‘curse’ following the events of the Odyssey made for. This book follows Leto, a 17 year old girl from Ithaca who is sentenced to die to appease Poseidon for the murders of Queen Penelope’s maids centuries before. All the awesome lesbian, trans, or queer characters in the world will not fix the problems I have with this girls lack of respect for the origin story, the legacy of it, and that she doesn’t get to just rip-off the parts of any story she wants.

A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids. Anyway, if you want a feminist version of The Odyssey written by a female Homeric scholar that’s been studying for literal decades, read The Odyssey translation by Emily Wilson. It’s the bittersweet sort of sad, where there is hope for the future, but the characters aren’t going to get that in the way they were expecting. if she had, she’d know that there were actually many examples of lesbian (and Lesbian) women in relationships in ancient Greece; although there was not an institution of female pederasty the same way male homosexuality was societally ingrained, sexual relationships between women were not only known but also comparatively common. She obtained her MEng in Computational Bioengineering at Imperial College, London, and recently graduated with her MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge.LIES WE SING TO THE SEA is a furiously stunning story of staring down the consequences of love that is chosen, and daring to leap in anyways. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. This could have been a book with ancient Greece aesthetics and mythology, that's ok I guess, but saying it is a re-telling of the Odyssey is claiming prestige when there is little to no work or interpretation behind it. It gets to the point where you’re putting in loads of time for tiny improvements, and I’m not going to [do] that. I always love a Greek retelling, and I liked that this was something a bit different - it was less a retelling, more a loosely linked sequel, taking a small feature from the very end of the Odyssey and turning it into a story of its own.

Sarah Underwood’s classical reimagining is woven with pure magic: salt-laced myths, a plot that slowly unravels like a tapestry, and vivid characters who are destined to steal your heart. who then washes up on a beach and meets Melantho, another girl turned into one of Poseidon’s creatures who is in charge of training the spared girl to fight and kill a prince (Queue training montages! A sensual story about power and autonomy of self, and about how appeasing the gods means making painful choices. Poly stories and cheating plots aren't a sin, naturally, but if you're gonna brag about how you're bringing diversity to the genre and not mention at all that the male/female romance is the more important one, I really really don't see where the confidence comes from. I also have to point out the author is completely unaware of the way she put Melantho's backstory right next to Leto and Mathias' culmination.We’re seeing more representation now, but it wasn’t around when I was in my teens; only in the last 3 or 4 years.