Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme to spotlight a future release that you’re excited about. It’s hosted by Wishful Endings and was previously hosted by Breaking the Spine.
This weeks anticipated book is:
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
About the Book:
Series: Women of Troy #2
Publication Date: Aug. 24, 2021
Page Length: 304
Publisher: Doubleday
Synopsis: Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.
But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended – the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied – and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.
Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can – with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest – and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous…
Do you like Greek myth retellings? Do you plan on reading this one? Which books are you most looking forward to? Comment below!
I LOVE greek retellings, I definitely need to read this author’s books!
I do too- they sound fantastic!
I read this a couple of months ago as an ARC and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope you enjoy it as well.
Thank you!! 🙂
i haven’t heard of this book before, but it sounds amazing!! thanks for sharing.