Absolutely LOVED this book! One of my new favs. I recommend reading alongside Song of Achilles my Madeline Miller.

Such complex characters and winding stories. I’m glad I took the chance and added this book to my collection. It was such a great read. Highly highly recommend!!

LOVED it. I love Clytemnestra’s anger, sad for everything she had to go through, but content she made it to the end and carried out her plan. I love how humanized Constanta made many of the women in this book feel.

So good, I couldn’t put it down. Finally a different type of heroine!

So well done. I love that time period. I felt as if I were there.

Impossible to put down. Beautifully written!

I have long admired the queens of Greek, Spartan, and Roman legend, but never before have I seen a writer dig so deeply to unveil what lies beneath the marble perfection. Beautifully crafted, and captivating in its pure simplicity of form. Prose that leaps from the pages to wrap the reader in living characters and vivid scenery. Clytemnestra is queenly writing, and I look forward to my next foray into this writer’s den.

This book honestly took me by surprise. I will say that I was not expecting to like the book as much as I did because the beginning of the book did start out a little slow. I was also confused about a certain character which made me not like the book at first. But as the book went on, I couldn’t stop reading. Clytemnestra and all her pain was hard to read about, but I couldn’t help but admire how strong she was the whole book. I also really liked how the book didn’t just focus on Clytemnestra’s vengeance, it also demonstrated how strong family bonds can go. I think the author did a phenomenal job in expressing the different characters emotions because it never felt like a single character was flat. I really appreciated how she portrayed Helen; the author actually made her a real person instead of just a woman that was beautiful. Overall, this book was phenomenal, and for anyone who likes Green mythology, this is the book for you.