Circe

The feminist themes and prose are highlights of this retelling, but its strengths end there and those strengths honestly kind of clash. Perhaps a side effect of the audiobook narrator, but the characterization rings decently hollow for me and the pacing trends towards aimless. A dash of modernity just isn't enough and I just think that if you're going to retell a myth centuries old in today's day and age, it's got to add something more substantive from a modern lens beyond the feminist angle presented here.