A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
5 ratings • 2 reviews
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
5 ratings • 2 reviews
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told.
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Entertaining, heart-wrenching, and dynamic in pacing. The real redeeming qualities of this book are the quieter moments touching on grief, loss, and longing.
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This is probably the first book I've ever dnf'd after barley 40 pages. I have to return it to the library but I doubt I will ever borrow it again to finish.
So I had extremely false expectations. What I was hoping for was a story, an adventure even, set in the time of the Trojan war about women. I was also excited when I saw goddesses mentioned in the description.
I'd describe it as a collection of short stories about various women and goddesses with themes of war, loss, grief etc. And by short I mean "somehow there were 5 stories in 40 pages" short, the shortest being only 2 pages. They ended before I could understand what exactly was going on so I couldn't connect to any of them. They also didn't really seem to be connected to each other in any way.
This definitely wasn't the read for me. The writing was good I guess. Maybe my rating is too harsh but I was extremely disappointed and bored.
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