Medusa retellings part 99
"While the police scramble to catch a phantom serial killer, a group of sisters knows the terrifying truth. They are racing to find her before the trail goes cold, but they are being hunted. Standing in their way is Athena—an Olympic-level combatant, a peerless polymath, and a woman as lethal as she is beautiful. As the sisters navigate the intersection of ancient mythology and modern forensics, they must unravel the dark, centuries-old secret behind the Gaze of Slate—a narrative twisted for millennia to hide the truth about who, and what, the world actually fears."
Yeah sure whatever
All this talk and the book only has 21 pages
"She was the Ebony Queen, moving with a feline, "I already won" energy that made every other model in the room look like a ghost. Her skin was hitting different under the high-def spotlights—it was a deep, flawless mahogany, polished to a radiant glow that looked like silk and midnight had a baby. Her complexion was so perfect it looked like it had been carved by a god, yet it pulsed with a warmth that was pure, vibrant life."
The fact that the book glazes her to such extent right from the start
"Porter O. Sterling (Poseidon) stood at the VIP bar, his gold-medalist shoulders barely contained by a custom suit. He was used to being the apex predator, but as he watched Medusa, his glass stayed halfway to his lips. He didn't want a business partner; he wanted the trophy the whole world was bowing to."
My god... 🙄
"She missed the daily calls to her sisters, Stheno and Euryale."
The bar is set so low that I'm impressed to see the other two gorgons as good sisters
"They called her the most beautiful girl in Greece, and men sailed across the sea just to watch her hair move like water."
Terrible start
"For readers of Lore Olympus, A Touch of Darkness, and morally-grey, villain-era Greek retellings"
It got worse
You know how generic this will be
"There were men, grown men, men with ships and wives and reputations, who crossed the sea to see a girl's hair move like water in the sun. [...]But they came on the days I was known to walk to the well, and they stood in the square, and they waited. When I came through they went quiet the way a hall goes quiet,"
Is there anything to say about this that wasn't said in another review?
"My sisters were beautiful too. I should say that, because the world has decided to make me the only one and it's not true and the truth is part of the story."
Well this is a retelling, which means nothing in these pages should be called truth
"He took the most beautiful girl in Greece and made her into something hard and cold and unable to look away, and the world thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.
I was the only one, later, who ever did the same thing and was hated for it. The same act. A different veredict because of who did it."
Oh shut up!
The sculptor that made a statue based on you, with your consent, didn't hurt or killed anyone in the process. Your petrifying gaze kills people, it's not the same act, stop trying to put on this pathetic defense argument
"Linos cannot be turned to stone, for he has already stood at the edge of his own death and survived the sight of himself. He has not come to kill her, and he has not come to cure her. He has come to do the one thing no one has done in three hundred years.
He has come to look at her—and to stay."
Ok then 😐
To put Bible quotes in such a retelling bothers me, but I don't know how to explain why
At first I was worried that this Linos would be a one-note love interest but since he's sixty-one years old, that's unlikely
"The goatherd had died, Linos understood, in the middle of seeing himself. Not her. Himself. And whatever he had seen, in the last soft half-second before the marble took him, he had not been able to live in the same world as it."
"He had lifted his face to her on purpose, the way a man lifts his face to a priest, and Linos stood over him a long time in the bone-colored light and understood that this one had come across the dead coast not to kill the Gorgon but to be killed by her, because somewhere out in the breathing world he had done a thing he could not carry and could not set down, and he had heard, as everyone eventually hears, that there was a woman at the edge of the world whose eyes would show a man the truth of himself and let him stop."
What a ridiculous way to absolve Medusa of petrifying dozens. And it's worse because that's not the only book that basically supports using Medusa as a method of assisted suic*de
"They had made her into the only confessor left who could not refuse you, and so the broken came to her to die, and she gave them what they asked, and the world counted the bodies and called her a monster for them."
I feel like this character Linos would unironically support the canadian MAiD program.
"I'd like to look at you when I can do it as a man looks at a person. Not as a man looks at a reason."
Wow I'm so moved /s 😑
It exist
"Instead, she got bitten by something ancient in an enchanted garden — and now her hair moves on it's own, her temper turns things to stone,"
So she has the power origins story of Peter Parker?
Almost on the 3 digits mark
