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Old 01-02-2025, 09:55 AM   #32077
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
And now I'm reading The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes. It looks like this is more like her excellent Stone Blind (about Medusa) than the rather dry Divine Might (info on the Greek Godesses).
I have mixed reactions to Haynes's books. Like you, I enjoyed Stone Blind and didn't care for Divine Might; with the latter, it was mostly her trying far too hard to make it "relevant". My favorite book by her is Pandora's Jar which made my ten-best list in 2022.

So, that said, I abandoned Jocasta's Children. It just grated.
Spoiler:
Impossible to believe that Jocasta was shocked, shocked at the thought of marrying an old king. That was a totally modern note that didn't seem realistic. I loathed the nicknames for the children. And Haynes revamped the Oedipus myth to the extent that it was unrecognizable. Ugh.


I'll be interested to find out what you think.
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