In Jennifer Saint's latest Greek mythology retelling, the often overlooked heroine Atalanta finally gets the leading role she deserves.
Although feminist mythological retellings are all the rage in the world of publishing right now, many of them tend to touch on similar themes and stories, often even using the same characters. This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily—and I will happily read as many versions of Circe and
Left to die on a mountainside as an infant by her father, a Greek king who never wanted a daughter, Atalanta is rescued by a bear and raised by the goddess Artemis, who trains her to be a confident and capable warrior and to disdain the company of men. But when word of Jason’s plan to gather the greatest heroes of Greece to join his search for the Golden Fleece, Artemis sends Atalanta as her champion with the aim of winning glory in her name.
The varied adventures of the Argonauts make for compelling reading, as Atalanta and her companions face everything from monsters and six-armed giants to magical prophecies and an island of women who murdered all the men that once lived there.
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