Elektra: The mesmerising story of Troy from the three women its heart

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The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon – her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris.

I would feel so incredibly sad for Clytemnestra and then several pages later so frustrated with her. I really enjoyed Jennifer Saint's previous book, Ariade, and was excited to get a chance to read Elektra! I don't want to dwell on comparing the two, though I did feel Daughters of Sparta was, perhaps, done with a greater commitment to historical detail.ClytemnestraThe sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. She is also the wife of Agamemnon the king who leads this massive siege of Troy to retrieve Helen, the wife of his brother, Menelaus. Nevertheless, I wanted to read this if only for my love of mythology and I am glad that I did despite this not being as good as the author's previous book.

Her drowning, never-ending grief was portrayed so well, her fierce love for her children felt so tangible that it felt like *I* lost people beloved to me as well. Elektra, though, is a weird heroine for a supposedly feminist retelling because her whole role is to uphold the patriarchy. We also follow Cassandra, a princess of Troy with the gift of foresight but the curse that none would believe her.For example, in the way the women behaved, their curbed freedoms, even the way the names were spelled, which was somewhat inconsistent in Elektra, where the author chose only to spell er name with the "K" as would have been correct, but Clytemnestra and Cassandra with "Cs", though, as far as I know, there is not letter "c" in Greek. and, because of that, i think i now prefer reimaginings, rather than faithful retellings, which is what this book is. Or perhaps it is more appropriate to say I never could figure out why she couldn’t provide a reasonable voice to what she was seeing.

I feel the voices of the two women were just too alike, both being young and having a similar tone to their voices. Cassandra, Princess of Troy, cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. If he did it to indeed help his brother or because Troy was so rich and he wanted the spoils as well as the fame, we'll also never know for sure.I have long been a fan of Greek mythology, and when I see a new retelling, I instantly gravitate towards it. Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.