A review by sandstorma
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin

1.0

I love Ursula Le Guin’s books so much but this was not it. The book follows Lavinia, the girl whose hair catches fire in Virgil’s Aeneid. It was an interesting choice to have Virgil play a character in this book and have Lavinia aware of the fact that she is a character in a poem. It felt like it was trying to follow the style of Mary Renault, but just didn’t work. Lavinia felt so detached from her story; there was very little dialogue and much of the book moved slowly.