![]() ![]() ![]() The chapter in which Iphigenia is sacrificed is a highlight of Elektra-Clytemnestra and her daughter are in the dark about what Agamemnon is planning (he tells them Iphigenia will be marrying Achilles, which surely should have made them suspicious we all know Achilles and Patroclus are OTP), and Saint effectively builds a sense of mounting dread as the chapter closes in on its bloody finale. I am glad Saint chose to tell this story from multiple POVs-the scope and interplay between the three central characters is crucial-but as the book becomes more thematically complex, she struggles to make it cohere.Ĭlytemnestra’s story is the most straightforward and the most engaging: her husband, Logan Roy Agamemnon, sacrifices their daughter, Iphigenia, to curry favor with the gods prior to sailing for Troy, and so she waits for him to come home so she can kill him. Jennifer Saint’s follow-up to Ariadne is called Elektra, but that is somewhat misleading-the titular character shares this story, which encompasses events prior to and during Homer’s Iliad and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, with Clytemnestra (her mother) and Cassandra of Troy ( The Trojan Women, or something similar, might have been a better name for this book even though Elektra and Clytemnestra are not from Troy, it still shapes their story, and I don’t think Euripides, who is currently very deceased, would mind the title of his play revitalized). I received an ARC of Elektra from Flatiron Books in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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