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Jul 25, 2015
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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I started out a little hesitant about this story. I wasn't sure what I thought about the oh-so-human gods popping into the story, but it gradually wore on me until I really began to love this feature of the book. The characters (Helen, Paris, Hector, Aphrodite, Eros) are mostly familiar to me, though I'm not sure if some of the young people (Marpessa? Xanthe? Alastor?) were present in the original story. It's all well done, I think. The almost-Shakespearean romantic mixups between Marpessa and A
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Oct 01, 2012
Kimberly
marked it as to-read
Jan 05, 2020
Christy McKenna
marked it as to-read
