Lies We Sing to the Sea

i really enjoyed this book, i loved the three main characters and while the ending was sad it was also very beautiful and felt like the right way to end this story...


also i just want to address everyone who gave this book a bad rating on this website before it was even released, just because of one interview where the author said she had not read the entire odyssey: guess what, it doesn't matter, you don't need to know the entire epos for this story. actually, you don't need to know it at all. i think it's enjoyable either way. also please do not come along with cultural appropriation or whatever, this is not applicable here at all.

i sincerely wish you would just read this book with an open mind without being so set on hating it from the beginning and without nitpicking the author's every word, misinterpreting her on purpose and writing hateful reviews. it is an awful pile-on here on goodreads and i absolutely hate that it's targeted at the one more recent sapphic story set in ancient greece that we got during this whole hype around ancient greece in literature. if the marketing tried to go for the whole “odyssey” retelling schtick then this is NOT the author's fault, publishers love doing that kind of misleading marketing all the time. just read the book or don't.

at heart this is a lovely sapphic story filled with a lot of love and compassion and i do recommend it.