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Circe by Madeline Miller - King Bob - 03-15-2021
Circe has short mentions in The Odyssey and in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This fleshes that out into a whole story. Odysseus still figures prominently, and some other myths are touched on. It's very well done and the writing is excellent. Rewriting myth can easily fall flat, but this avoids that, perhaps because she's filling a hole in the story instead. (The author is a classicist, which may have helped.) Recommended if you enjoy Greek mythology.