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A review by megsbookishtwins
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
4.0
disclaimer: I received this free from the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review
content warnings: violence, abuse, gore, child abuse, child death, sexual assault, rape, misogyny
'They'll either make you his adoring, lovesick damsel or they'll make you the villain. Those are the only roles they feel comfortable with us occupying'.
Medea follows Medea - obviously - throughout her childhood, her marriage to the legendary hero Jason, and then the killing of her own children & we see her slowly spiral and give into her rage, her power, and her darkness & fully embrace it. Medea was a... difficult character for me, & rightly so - she was multifaceted. I felt a lot of things - I hated her naivety, her co-dependance & her anger & her slow descent into the 'villain' but I also hated how she was villainised by everyone around her! You sympathise, you hate, you love, you weep & you seethe in anger alongside her. The complexity to accomplish this!
Honestly, she should have run off with Atalanta & lived happily ever after.
content warnings: violence, abuse, gore, child abuse, child death, sexual assault, rape, misogyny
'They'll either make you his adoring, lovesick damsel or they'll make you the villain. Those are the only roles they feel comfortable with us occupying'.
Medea follows Medea - obviously - throughout her childhood, her marriage to the legendary hero Jason, and then the killing of her own children & we see her slowly spiral and give into her rage, her power, and her darkness & fully embrace it. Medea was a... difficult character for me, & rightly so - she was multifaceted. I felt a lot of things - I hated her naivety, her co-dependance & her anger & her slow descent into the 'villain' but I also hated how she was villainised by everyone around her! You sympathise, you hate, you love, you weep & you seethe in anger alongside her. The complexity to accomplish this!
Honestly, she should have run off with Atalanta & lived happily ever after.