Elektra: No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of ARIADNE

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All the action takes place elsewhere, and all we have to go on here is a tragedy before papa goes off to lead the army of the Greeks, the tragedy caused by the same jerk, and we're pretty much stuck in the heads of those who were left behind.

But the beauty of Jennifer Saint’s Elektra lies in how the author chooses to highlight the perspectives of the women from these stories as told from their different vantage points. It’s true that these stories almost always focus on men, with the women playing side roles at best, even when they do enough to warrant helming their own stories. The book evokes so many thoughts and emotions that I never could pin one thought down in regards to the characters. Thank you Netgalley and Headline for sending me an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. reads like a student trying to reach the word-count on an essay: 300 pages of exposition and filler.

The creative language used in Elektra only made the story richer, and didn't feel like a tool to fluff up an otherwise disappointing author's writing. It might be different if, for instance, Saint had swapped Elektra for someone farther removed from Clytemnestra so that it felt like three women coming from three vastly different places rather than leaving Cassandra as such an outlier.

Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. I’ve heard the most about The Women of Troy, but she’s written The Silence of the Girls as well, which is about Briseis (the woman that Agamemnon and Achilles squabble over).We witness Clytemnestra’s journey to Mycenae, the birth of their children… and of course the start of the Trojan war, as well as many more events that take place. But the long periods of waiting between events, the awkwardly chosen POVs, and the unspectacular writing left me fairly cold. The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. Her second novel, ELEKTRA, was a Number One Sunday Times bestseller and explores the curse upon the House of Atreus, giving voice to three women who are caught up in its shadows: Clytemnestra, Cassandra and Elektra whose lives are shattered by the Trojan War and who seek to find justice at any cost. I can’t quite tell if the intended audience is people who are just getting into mythology or people who already know it well.