A review by priimarina
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

3.0

Wish it had rather focused on the 12 maids than Penelope— Penelope was a little flat and Atwood tried to make up for it by making every other character in the novel intolerable. Not a huge fan of how it sells itself as a retelling when the story itself is fundamentally the same— even so, I didn’t think the final “twist” that Odysseus killed innocent women even worked… Quick read and I enjoyed a lot of the modern world inclusion but ultimately left me a little unsatisfied