I enjoyed Circe, enough to read it twice. That surprised me as I was only moderately intrigued by Miller's earlier The Song of Achilles. I'd recommend also two other interesting Trojan War books, Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls and Natalie Haynes A Thousand Ships. That these were all female-authored was beside the point for me: I'm a fan of the Iliad and that includes well-done re-interpretations. I'm glad I read them before reading any reviews because a review mentioning how "empowering" a book is, is a book I generally avoid. That's not what I look for. But differences make the world go 'round.
I heard of "The Silence of the Girls", glad you liked it, I'll look more into it. And I know that "Empowering" became a redundant SJW word now, but I did find that the book was, well... Empowering! The "let your freak flag fly" kind. Do you disagree or have problems only with the cultural context that the words took in recent years?
