All the Murmuring Bones

As much as I love these feminist retellings of mythology that I've been devouring the past few years, there are some trends in them that I'm starting to get tired of. A common one I see is that most of the men in these stories are just symbols for the patriarchy, often cartoonishly evil. It just feels a bit too much like wish-fullfilment at times, to make the fight more black-and-white for our heroine, easier to justify.

Easy to overlook that, however. I still liked this book overall, especially as it got near the end- the pacing didn't entirely work for me, and it took a LONG time to get going. Once it did, it worked, but maybe it took just a little too long to get there. I liked the way it intertwined many mythological stories together, probably my favorite part.

Will still read the author's next book, Murwood, which is apparently coming out next year.