Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > Circe > Status Update

I love all the human connections in this story about a goddess.

"Later, years later, I would hear a song made of our meeting.... I was not surprised by the portrait of myself: the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep."

I loved the chapters with Daedalus, and it's a shame that the mortal characters can get only a brief role in Circe's immortal life.

Compelling character and story, wonderful prose!