I found this book while I was researching the stories about Cassandra for a creative writing assignment at college. I really enjoyed it and I'm on the lookout for my own copy since I've decided that this is a book that I must have in my library.
To start with, I really like first person novels since they are like someone sitting across a table from me telling me their story. Secondly, I have a fascination with the old stories as I see them as the Creation Myth of our Western society.
To be quite b
I found this book while I was researching the stories about Cassandra for a creative writing assignment at college. I really enjoyed it and I'm on the lookout for my own copy since I've decided that this is a book that I must have in my library.
To start with, I really like first person novels since they are like someone sitting across a table from me telling me their story. Secondly, I have a fascination with the old stories as I see them as the Creation Myth of our Western society.
To be quite blunt, this is a very good read. It is fascinating in its relation of mythical characters and the personalities of the Trojan War It covers the war in a detail that I had never experienced before and I was hooked right from the beginning.
Cassandra's tale starts 3000 years after the end of the war as she's trying to make sense of it all, having spent three millennia pondering the events and talking to anyone in the underworld their view on the war, the events leading up to it, and the aftermath. She is speaking from the view of the vanquished and not from that of the Victors who usually write history. It is her intent to set the record straight and to ask why it had to happen and was it all worth it.
If you're into the Greco-Roman myths, if you're into speculative history, or if you just like sitting down and listening to someone's story you will find this book a great read. I can't recommend it more highly.
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