Medusa: A beautiful and profound retelling of Medusa’s story

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Some of the illustrations are so powerful as well, you could feel the emotions emanating off the page.

The dark story of Medusa is interpreted as a cautionary tale about the dangers of feminine beauty and power and the unjust punishment of a victim. Perseus also encountered Andromeda, the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. With each day affection grows on both sides, with Perseus declaring that he thinks he loves Medusa, Medusa realizes that she feels the same.

They are journeying to uncover the secrets behind Medusa’s curse and explore the possibility of breaking it.

It was simply a compulsively readable story that sucked you in, making you curiously turn the pages, excited to find out what happened next.

She was, instead, viewed here an ordinary girl wishing to live a quiet and solitary existence and with no desires for the power from or notice of the gods. And I spoke in hope: it felt of utmost importance that this boy should stay on my island – for a day, a week, a month. But the story stayed with her, well, the rage about the story of how ill-treated this supposed monster had been, anyway.

Burton's text and Lomenech Gill's art are a perfect match, offering a powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story.I loved that here, in her own words, she gets to be more than just a cautionary tale or a monster to be slayed.