🏷️ Greek Mythology

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Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018

The witch of Greek mythology gets her own story. Circe isn't powerful or beautiful like other gods. But she finds her own magic, on her own terms. Quietly devastating.

📖 Book⭐ 4.2🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A Touch of Darkness

Scarlett St. Clair · 2019

Persephone meets Hades in a nightclub. She hates him. He's obsessed. A modern Hades and Persephone retelling where he's the god of the dead and she's a journalism student. The mythology nerd's dream romance.

📖 Book⭐ 4.8🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2012

Patroclus tells the story of Achilles — from boyhood friendship to the Trojan War. You know how it ends. You read it anyway. And it DESTROYS you. The last page is one of the most devastating in literature.