This was a weird mix for me. I liked the first half, but I felt the second half was riddled with fights over miscommunication issues and petty combative arguments that it became hard to take it seriously. There's also a certain chapter two thirds in that is written in the second person and is good, but the story part of it felt unnecessary and tacked on and just gave the characters more reasons to fight about it. Some of the dialogue also felt clunky for me. Overall it is good and I definitely enjoyed parts of it, but it feels too long.

I picked this up to read this weekend as this is just a novella. This contains a lot for being relatively short. It can't go into depth and I find that it ends quite suddenly, so I didn't find it to be that impactful. Nyr was an interesting character.

For being a book supposedly about Medusa there was very little Medusa in this story. We get like 20 different POVs and every once and a while we return to Medusa herself and it's just not enough. The focus is more on the gods which is a shame because I didn't find it that interesting and just overall very bland unfortunately.

An ARC of this book was given to me through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Too much action, too little depth. The story starts off well and interesting, but towards the end it just becomes one action sequence after another with little room inbetween to breathe and actually learn to care for these characters so they become more than just names on a page. They definitely tried to go for the camaraderie style but I don't think they succeeded in showing it much. It being told in first person was also an interesting choice, as it is a good way to get into more emotional storytelling, but I felt in this case with it being more action-packed, it didn't add much. What I was interested in most was the flashbacks. I actually thought that was a more interesting story to tell.

It takes a while to get going, and then once it gets going, you just sorted of get a "That's it?" feeling. Felt unfortunately very bored throughout this. Also way too many unnecessary POVs which result in a lot of 2-3 minute chapters.