Jean's Thoughts 91.7K subscribers · Aug 9, 2023

10 Myth Retellings I Love That Are NOT Greek or Roman

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it's like I mentioned this really beautiful seamless blending of mythologies and folklore and storytelling and a meditation on that whilst also having beautiful queer representation Sapphic representation and being very beautifully written it's like so immersive

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I really loved the growth of her character and her sort of relationship with her mother being the motivating factor but also how she finds herself and learns more about herself as an independent person after their separation it's a really gorgeous book

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in some ways this is a very tragic story it's going to be heart-wrenching if you read it's quite forlorn it's very beautifully written but it's also so immersive and so emotive and so deep and Rich and I loved it

Loved

it's such a gorgeous novel it's a why a like romantic adventure fantasy I'd call it with like Korean folklore elements and references to that folk tale that I mentioned earlier and I just adored the like intricacy of the world that axial created in this

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it's a really captivating story it kind of has you on the edge of your seat there's a lot of high stakes throughout this story and it like I said is a retelling of one of my favorites with some interesting new twists that the author adds in

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it beautifully weaves in aspects of Welsh mythology little references to the map of nogion and it just creates this very like Whimsical otherworldly atmosphere for what is otherwise a book quite written in reality and it's so captivating