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A review by dekaj
Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
Did not finish book.
I just can't.
I picked this up thinking it would be like Circe or The Witch's Heart. Oh boy, was I in for a disappointment. But that's on me. Yet again, I failed to heed the YA tag.
(no rating given because I should have known better)
The author did an interview that has since been taken down, but the internt keeps everything. I think everyone that wants to read this book should first read this interview. This book might be just what you are looking for, but for me, it highlighted exactly why I did not like it. https://web.archive.org/web/20220615031808/https://felixonline.co.uk/issue/1785/books/an-interview-with-sarah-underwood-bioengineering-graduate-and-soon-to-be-published-author
"I read a lot of the stories within The Odyssey, because they’re in things like Percy Jackson, and those little books of mythology you get as a kid, but I actually started and finished writing without sitting down and reading the whole thing." —Underwood 2021
If you have not read the Odyssey, how can you let the promoters call this a "Sapphic, feminist retelling of the Odyssey"??
"If you aren’t on top of trends in writing style and content, you lose relevancy." —Underwood 2021
It shows. Oh God, it shows.
I picked this up thinking it would be like Circe or The Witch's Heart. Oh boy, was I in for a disappointment. But that's on me. Yet again, I failed to heed the YA tag.
(no rating given because I should have known better)
The author did an interview that has since been taken down, but the internt keeps everything. I think everyone that wants to read this book should first read this interview. This book might be just what you are looking for, but for me, it highlighted exactly why I did not like it. https://web.archive.org/web/20220615031808/https://felixonline.co.uk/issue/1785/books/an-interview-with-sarah-underwood-bioengineering-graduate-and-soon-to-be-published-author
"I read a lot of the stories within The Odyssey, because they’re in things like Percy Jackson, and those little books of mythology you get as a kid, but I actually started and finished writing without sitting down and reading the whole thing." —Underwood 2021
If you have not read the Odyssey, how can you let the promoters call this a "Sapphic, feminist retelling of the Odyssey"??
"If you aren’t on top of trends in writing style and content, you lose relevancy." —Underwood 2021
It shows. Oh God, it shows.