It is about power, family, motherhood, confidence, pride, conflict and love all at once.
Circe’s story covers so many different areas of life. It is like getting twenty tales in one and the plot covers centuries throughout the book which gives it a real immensity and power. Because of the immortal nature of Greek Gods and Titans, there is such breadth and scope when telling their stories. Most readers will know at least a little about famous Greek Gods and Goddesses but Miller brings them completely and wholly to life and gives them personalities and weaknesses along with their more famous qualities. The thing that is so special about this author’s writing is that she manages to make it both totally suit the descriptive and complex language of mythology and still keep it completely accessible for her readers.Ĭirce herself is a great character to follow, she is likeable pretty quickly but still keeps an air of mystery about her. Madeline Miller is a phenomenal writer, just as in Song of Achilles her prose is poetic and lyrical which works so beautifully in the realm of Greek Gods. Circe more than lived up to my high expectations and yet was still unique and surprising. I loved Song of Achilles (Miller’s first novel) when I read it a few years ago and I have been eagerly awaiting her next book and hoping it would continue with the theme of Greek Mythology, which it has. 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.Ĭirce has been my most anticipated read in a very long time and from the moment I heard about it. 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, out now
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