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I did end up liking it more. It's kind of like "The Lightning Thief" for grownup women- a female bildungsroman with Greek mythology. You have all the familiar myths and characters- Titans and Olympians, Apollo and Athena, Jason and Medea, Ariadne and the Minotaur, Dedalus and Icarus, and of course Odysseus and Telemachus. Yet it's a strangely modern story of female empowerment- doing the hard work and coming to terms with mortality and the tragic condition of life etc. The author has a good background in classics, and it was well done.
