A review by ladykatka
Twisted Myths: 20 Classic Stories with a Dark and Dangerous Heart by Maura McHugh

1.0

The stories contained within this book are just simply myths. Most people will know at least one of these myths, either from their own culture, or from school. They didn't even change the myths. Well that isn’t really true, they condensed them and cut out a lot, and I mean a lot of the myths in order to make them shorter. This condensing and cutting has actually made the myths less interesting and even a bit confusing. Many of the myths have more than one jammed together. For example, the Greek myth about the birth of Zeus and fall of Kronos is compacted into the same myth as Prometheus and Pandora. Or the Egyptian myth about how we got a 365 days in a year tied in with the myth about the death of Osiris. It makes for a muddled mess of a book. I love ancient myths and cultural tales, however this book was a terrible version of these stories.