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Rachael asked this question about A Thousand Ships:
How does this book compare to Pat Barker's THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS? Is this going to be an ongoing literary trend now--re-telling wars/conflicts through women's perspective(s)? I don't want another "GONE GIRL" kind of thing where one book launches a thousand wannabes, so to speak, and that's all we see for a while. Not to say that this trend/these books are bad, I just get tired of the same thing over and over.
Rori Raquib I liked this much better than The Silence of the Girls. This book explores the narrative over more female perspectives, including goddesses, and gives…moreI liked this much better than The Silence of the Girls. This book explores the narrative over more female perspectives, including goddesses, and gives a much richer understanding of the war, its impacts, and what the world was like.

The Silence of the Girls is really just Briseis's perspective, which isn't a particularly interesting one - just another view of Achilles. A Thousand Ships feels more epic in scope.(less)
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