And clearly, Haynes is someone who knows the source materials well the detail and care taken with the characters and the story really shows. The writing of this is often beautiful, but not too flowery. All these points of view are revealed through the eyes of the Muse of epic poetry, Calliope, as she seeks to show an aged Homer the perspectives of those he has overlooked. In A Thousand Ships, we follow the women who lived alongside those men, seeing through their eyes and experiencing their side of the story. In Homer’s famous epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, we follow various men who go to war, face loss and destruction, and battle many obstacles to return home. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.
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