September's Read: "Circe" by Madeline Miller
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A forgotten goddess tells her side of the story. Let's see if Odysseus comes out looking like the hero this time.
Even the gods feared her power.
A story of one of the most misunderstood woman in Olympus. Exiled to a remote island by a father who fears her power, Circe doesn't wither in solitude. She sharpens. From the anger and violence directed at her by the gods, monsters, and mortals. Who underestimate her. Over centuries, she forges herself into something no deity saw coming . . .
A witch who answers to no one.
But there is danger for any woman who refuses to kneel. Drawing the kind of fury that makes oceans boil and skies crack open, Circe finds herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians.
Now, Circe must make a choice that will define her existence. Does she belong with the gods, or with the mortals she has come to love?
393 pgs
fiction/mythology