caterspotaters

52%
Flag icon
“Girls can’t throw,” jeers Toxeus. “Girls can’t run in a straight line without bumping into trees or tripping over,” snorts Evippus. “Girls can’t shoot arrows without the bowstring snapping back and stinging them in the face,” smirks Plexippus. “Girls don’t have the stomach to kill,” sneers Eurypylus. “Let us see,” says Atalanta, and at the sound of her dark, throbbing, yet commanding voice Meleager falls even more deeply in love. She has gone to the window. “Those three trees. Which of us can put an arrow in each trunk first?” The uncles join her at the window and follow her gaze to a distant ...more
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Preview