Ratings45
Average rating3.4
The story of the book is very captivating and interesting yet the author failed to keep me captivated and interested all the way through. I am a huge fan of Jennifer Saint's previous book, Ariadne, this one didn't live up to that one's beautiful writing. Reading a split perspective book can sometimes be confusing but this one was especially confusing with there being 3 different perspectives. The beginning started off very strong and lost me in the middle and the end as well. I probably would've enjoyed it more from one perspective. All that being said it is still a well written book and I did enjoy a lot of it. There are some really beautiful lines and I enjoyed hearing the story of the Trojan war from a women's perspective and from the Trojan perspective. Clytemnestra's storyline was the most interesting by far for me followed by Cassandra and then Elektra so for Elektra to be the title character was odd for me. Elektra was very one dimensional and by the end I didn't know much about her besides that she loved her father and wanted revenge on her mother. I went into the book excited to learn about Elektra as I didn't know really anything about her and I think the book could've benefitted from a title change as it would suggest it's Elektra's story when it was really the story of at least 4 people.