The plot focuses on Circe but doesn’t recite her experiences alone. It’s one of those detailed prose that you can’t skim at any cost, for every line gives something new and is written with an emotion that is hard to miss. Of course, huge credit should be given to the stunning writing. While the book is simply 300+ pages, the story spans over centuries and you can almost feel the knowledge Circe has embedded as the time passed.

Circe grows through each chapter, changes to be better, learns from her mistakes, and doesn’t shy away from owning her wrongdoings. The best aspect of this story has to be character development. She’s a witch by will and learns her craft out of love for herself and then out of love for the ones she deeply feels for. The way she’s adamant on thriving despite the hurdles gods put in her way, despite the men who consider her weak simply because she’s alone in her home, on her island is an inspiration wrapped in the mist of her spellbinding draughts. But it was so much more too! It has feminist ideas spread through the centuries Circe lives. This work of fiction, a retelling of the Greek witch & goddess, a dive into the historical fiction and mythology has become an absolute favourite of mine. This book is a perfect mixture of finding one’s individuality, growing to love oneself, and understanding how not everyone you share your blood with is the best person for you while practising witchcraft and finding the ones you want to care for because you simply love them. To know more about them, please read my disclaimer. This blog post may contain affiliate links. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.īut there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power – the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. But Circe is a strange child – not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born.

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