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10. Lore by Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and Lore is one in all her most cherished works.

This novel has been referred to as a mixture of Medusa and The Hunger Games.

In the guide, 9 gods have been deserted by Zeus as punishment for a revolt stuffed with betrayal – it follows the story of those gods who’re pressured to stroll amongst people like mortals.

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9. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

This retelling is exclusive and Atwood offers this story of Greek mythology a brand new and thrilling twist.

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope, spouse of Odysseus and cousin of the attractive Helen of Troy, is portrayed because the quintessential trustworthy spouse. She is left alone for 20 years whereas her husband fights within the Trojan War, whereas he’s away she is pressured to maintain over 100 suitors at bay.

When Odysseus returns dwelling, he kills her suitors and 12 of her maids – Atwood’s story explores the killing of those 12 maids.

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6. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Homer’s The Illiad is a conflict epic that’s virtually solely male-centric. Though a number of well-known ladies seem within the story of the Trojan War—the attractive Helen of Troy, the prophetic Cassandra, the tragic Andromache—they get comparatively little focus and virtually no company. This is particualrly true of Briseis, the previous princess turned imprisoned slave who exists to be little greater than an object for Agamemnon and Achilles to battle over.

But in Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls, Briseis is given her voice again, and in doing so, your complete focus of Homer’s poem is shifted, as she is allowed to bear witness to the violence that males do—to ladies, one another and the world.

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