My Quick Takes:
- 4.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre: Mythological Retelling
- Language 🤐 I want to say none, can’t remember 🙈
- Spice ❤️🔥 one fade to black/vague open door scene
- Content 🤔 prostitution, slavery, death, killing, violence, war pregnancy loss, abuse, past sexual assault
Wow. The very end 💔 gutted
It took me a while to get into this one with all the names and mythological references. It’s been a minute since I’ve been in a mythology retelling. But once I finally got my footing I loved it.
I really enjoyed the multiple points of view (pov) of women living in Troy and what they were willing to do to defend it, with or without approval. I listened to the audio and each POV had its own narrator which was a fantastic detail. Telling the story of Troy through the eyes of women that were within her walls is an undertaking and A.D. Rhine does it beautifully. I really loved when all the more infamous characters from outside of Troys walls entered the plot and hope to see more of them in the second book, Women of Bronze, which I absolutely will be reading soon.
This is book 1 in a duology, they do build upon each other so you must read this book first! Fun fact, A.D. Rhine is a pen name for two friends that cowrote this duology! Would recommend this duology to anyone interested in Greek mythology or the Trojan war.
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