Medusa: A beautiful and profound retelling of Medusa’s story

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Perseus and “Merina” (the name she uses with Perseus) share their stories and initially, Medusa is unaware of Perseus’s real intentions behind his journey to her island just as he is unaware of her true identity. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned.

So often [Medusa’s] robbed of agency, turned into a monster, and used as a stepping stone for heroes. Thereafter, Medusa’s curiosity overwhelms her so that she risks making his acquaintance, while keeping her face hidden.Mas, no que diz respeito à reinterpretação mitológica, senti que não acrescenta muito: conta a história mais ou menos como a conhecemos, só altera a lente com que a observamos. Taking her lead from the likes of Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, Higgins’s Greek Myths: A New Retelling is narrated by female characters. She uses the story of Medusa to show how often, instead of being seen as victims of abuse, women have been accused of bringing on the abuse instead. This book asserts the tale of a woman as fascinating as anyone in Greek mythology and certainly one of the most tragic.

With each day affection grows on both sides, with Perseus declaring that he thinks he loves Medusa, Medusa realizes that she feels the same. One day a young man lands on the island as if blown off course, but armed with his sword, shield and winged sandals all kept covered on his boat. Stalked by Poseidon she is sexually abused by him in Athena’s temple but far from sympathy you would expect from Athena, instead the goddess turns her beautiful hair to a mass of venomous snakes with a promise “woe betide any man fool enough to look upon you now”. thank you netgalley, bloomsbury usa children's books, and jessie burton for an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review! Thank you to the author, Jessie Burton, the illustrator, Olivia Lomenech Gill, and the publisher, Bloomsbury YA, for this opportunity.

I marvelled that we could fall for each other without meeting face to face, that the mortal mind was capable of such gymnastics when it wanted. Internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton flips the script in this astonishing retelling of Greek myth, illuminating the woman behind the legend at last. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). Olivia Lomenech Gill's artwork was the perfect match for the subtleness of emotion exhibited throughout the tale and also the melancholy that exuded from it at the end.