An Ancient Historian's Top 10 Greek Myth Retellings

when I did read it, it was just the most like otherworldly experience. It is so stunning.

I thought this book was stunning. It's incredibly compelling and I love what a book like this can do for an individual in Greek mythology and really like make them a whole and make them somebody you can understand even if they are this like almighty deity.

I was so impressed by how Nikita approached this retelling and how masterfully she did it because what is so lovely about this book is it takes this very powerful, mysterious goddess and makes her quite relatable.

it is handled so sensitively and so beautifully. It's incredibly relatable. It's incredibly emotional and eye-opening.

I adore this book, and I have adored it since the first time I read it. I have read it many times since.

It's such a compelling novel. Ish is such an interesting character. It's beautifully written.

it is an absolutely incredible examination of really what it's like to be a woman, to be constantly objectified, to be seen as a thing often by men, to have your body separated from your mind, and this attempt to find some control in that.

She creates such vivid, like believable, emotional portraits of an incredibly difficult time and helps you connect with these characters and really understand the trauma and the terror that they're experiencing.

This is such a good concept and so well executed.

I love the way she delivers a story, and I love the way she delivered this story, which is a retelling of the myth of Atlas.