A review by eviesellers
Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood

3.0

this book was easy and fairly enjoyable to read, but fell flat in its goal of assigning agency and personality to helen and klytemnestra. neither sister really got much of a personality, and there was still a heavy emphasis on how powerless they were in their own society (i didn't expect a retelling where they were magically liberated, but it seemed somewhat strange how often this idea was brought up in a book meant to show who these women were outside of the patriarchal power structures that obscured them).

i don't know a whole lot about ancient greece, as it was never really a historical period that caught my interest, but in reading other reviews of this book i've since learned that there are some inaccuracies and important details that were left out that would have contributed to the story (zeus as helen's father, cassandra's gift of prophecy, the trojan horse)