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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This retelling of the Aeneid follows a young priestess of the Lady of the Death from the Pylos, where her Trojan mother had been enslaved, to a voyage on the Mediterranean while Aeneas and the others who remain seek a new place for themselves. ( ) This book is enchanting. It's a story of how Aeneas founded Rome, but told from the Sybil's perspective. I never read the Aeneid, but I got the the idea that author was trying to tackle an epic story. The book did become burdensome to read at times. I do agree with one of the reviewers that are too many characters. Maybe the original Aeneid had all these characters and she felt she needed to include them. She wrote well enough so that it warrants me to check out the sequel. I really enjoyed this -- a deep, engrossing read, with wonderful characters and a very satisfying, unique story. I wrote "unique" with some trepidation, since this story has, in fact, been told a gazillion times, broadly the journey the defeated Trojans took after their city's fall and the founding of Rome by Aeneas, the Trojan prince. But the story is told by Aeneas' "oracle," a former slave and child of rape called Gull. Through her eyes, we see one of the (many) great cataclysms of ancient world, the destruction of cities (and knowledge) prompted by sea-faring and the attempt by the Greeks to capitalize on their victory at Troy by taking over the Mediterranean. Graham is excellent at putting us firmly in Gull while at the same time panning out to gives us a sense of the overall world (a skill I'm definitely working on). The start is a bit slow and the pace leisurely, but it really pays off at the end.
The structure of this story isn’t anything readers of feminist historical fantasy haven’t seen before... But although the novel lacks surprises, it compensates with sympathetic characters and emotional truth. Pertenece a las seriesNuminous World (1) PremiosDistinciones
The daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, Gull was chosen to become the voice of the Lady of the Dead and counsel kings. But when nine black ships appear, captained by exiled Prince Aeneas, she joins him as his guide and leads him to his destiny. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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