I shook my head. “I’ve heard stories about the family. The same ones as you. The curse of their ancestors, fathers killing their sons and brothers turning on each other. It’s all in the past, though, isn’t it?” Every word I speak is unwelcome. My throat is raw from the words that are torn from me when I touch someone, when I look into their eyes and see the blinding white truth. My prophecies rip out my insides, but still they come, unbidden, even as I quake at the consequences.” Ok, so if you know the Trojan War, there isn’t a great deal of new material here. And having recently read A Thousand Ships and The Women of Troy, maybe it was just too much similar.

T he story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ REAL READER REVIEW Surprisingly and Unbelievably I enjoyed every bit of it! This book was amazing and one of my best reads of this year, one of my best mythology.Aegisthus,” Helen said. “The son of Thyestes—just a boy, like they were when Thyestes killed their father.”

She then spends the next 10 years planning to murder her husband when he comes home from Mycenae and see her trying to hold power in court. But we also get to see her as a mother before Troy and after, providing Cassandra with death to escape her torment (this scene was wrote really beautifully too despite it being about death). Each of the three POC characters are deliciously complex, and the relationship between Elektra and Clytemnestra is brilliant. How does one get to the point where the murder of your own mother seems not only reasonable but morally necessary? Why would Elektra take her father’s ‘side’ after what he did to her sister? Why did Clytemnestra ‘let’ it all happen? The answers to these questions have no easy answer and are explored in all their grounded and tragic glory, adding human emotion and compassion to these women’s stories. While naturally, the women are not on the same side, never in the story is one the ‘bad guy’, each of them knows why they do what they do and narratively it makes sense. Inter-character relationships are at the heart of this story regardless of whether the characters are geographically together and Saint depicts them as difficult, conflicting, illogical, inspiring, desperate and rejuvenating all at once, whether it is the relationship between Clytemnestra and Elektra, Elektra and Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and her sister Helen (a character who is dealt with superbly), Cassandra and Helen or even Clytemnestra and Cassandra. As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur - Minos's greatest shame and Ariadne's brother - demands blood every year.

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For lovers of Greek Mythology, it is wonderful to see the world from the eyes and perspective of these women. Feel their pain, and experience their anger, their lust for revenge, their tragic painful loss. I was glued to it from beginning to end and could not wait to recommend to my friends afterwards.' REAL READER REVIEW

So, I propose that we all swear that, no matter whom she chooses, we will all join him in protecting her. We will all make a most solemn vow that we shall defend his right to have her—and keep her—with our own lives.” In this, it's mostly a whimper and daddy worship and mommy hating her husband and taking a lover and then going "Oh, My" when crap hits the fan. And then we have some of the OTHER more memorable female characters from across Greece, on the other side of the war, to give a counterpoint, but it's weird and hardly necessary at all except to bring in the action that has been so missing from the primary tale.This book is profoundly moving, full of beautiful touches which made the story feel fresh without losing any of the magic of its classical setting. I absolutely loved it. * Elodie Harper, author of THE WOLF DEN * And once we get to the "action", it's over in two sentences and then the book keeps droning on and on and on for far too long yet again. this novel tells the stories of three women who are impacted by the trojan war - clytemnestra, elektra, and cassandra (why this book is named after only elektra, i couldnt tell you). and because i am already familiar with their stories, this didnt offer me anything new. its very true to the original tale and does a good job at giving a voice to these women. i just wish there had been a little more uniqueness to this book.

The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' REAL READER REVIEWDue to the numerous storylines and characters involved the book could have become quite confusing. With Ms. Saints considerable writing skills the book avoids this problem and is clearly laid out and entertaining. Utilizing well defined, three dimensional characters and believable dialogue the book for the most part flows easily. Only in the lead up to the climax of the book did I find the story dragged a-bit and became boring. Nevertheless, I wanted to read this if only for my love of mythology and I am glad that I did despite this not being as good as the author's previous book. Elektra by Jennifer Saint is a retelling of the classic Greek myth of the same name. It is narrated by three women. First Clytemnestra, the sister of Helen of Troy, the woman famed for launching a thousand ships. She is also the wife of Agamemnon the king who leads this massive siege of Troy to retrieve Helen, the wife of his brother, Menelaus.Next we have Cassandra the princess of Troy who upon refusing the god Apollo’s advances was cursed to be able to foretell the future but never be believed. Finally we have Elektra the youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. She is fiercely loyal to her father and becomes bitterly estranged from her mother. Much is written of the men, gods and demigods who fought the 10 year Trojan war but very little is ever portrayed about the.women effected by it. By writing this utilizing the 3 female narrators we finally get the female perspective. Cassandra, Princess of Troy, cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it.