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A review by caoilo
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina MacLaughlin
4.0
Wake, Siren is a retelling of Myths. It shows these myths in a new way. Here MacLaughlin hides nothing, glazes over nothing, romanticizes everything but the harsh truth.
Though MacLaughlin uses modern English and in a vulgar and crude way. it is exactly what is called for. She tells these myths not in a wool over eyes way they are usually told.
MacLaughlin leaves you in no doubt that you are reading a story about innocence, trust, rape, lies, and vengeance.
MacLaughlin could use beautiful prose in one line and cutting vulgarity the next, yet at no time did I feel it was disjointed.
Each story had held my attention and shock me awake. This is the title, it was my Siren MacLaughlin wanted to wake and every story stoked the fire in my soul.
The stories were not easy to read given their topic but that made them that much more important. I felt, even with the element of magic/power there was a real undercurrent of real life ; the guilty do not always pay, the innocent often suffer, revenge is taken on the wrong person, we can not always control our lives.
For me this book raised one question in particular. Why for all this time have these myths been so loved?
Though MacLaughlin uses modern English and in a vulgar and crude way. it is exactly what is called for. She tells these myths not in a wool over eyes way they are usually told.
MacLaughlin leaves you in no doubt that you are reading a story about innocence, trust, rape, lies, and vengeance.
MacLaughlin could use beautiful prose in one line and cutting vulgarity the next, yet at no time did I feel it was disjointed.
Each story had held my attention and shock me awake. This is the title, it was my Siren MacLaughlin wanted to wake and every story stoked the fire in my soul.
The stories were not easy to read given their topic but that made them that much more important. I felt, even with the element of magic/power there was a real undercurrent of real life ; the guilty do not always pay, the innocent often suffer, revenge is taken on the wrong person, we can not always control our lives.
For me this book raised one question in particular. Why for all this time have these myths been so loved?