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“Deane’s tour de force debut …brings the familiar story to fresh, vivid, and unforgettable new life.” – Publishers Weekly (starred assessment)
Drawing on historic texts and trendy archeology to disclose the trans girl’s story hidden beneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly stunning imaginative and prescient of Achilles’ vanished world, excellent for followers of Tune of Achilles, The Witch’s Coronary heart, and the Inheritance trilogy.
The gods wished blood. She fought for love.
Achilles has fled her residence and her vicious Myrmidon clan to reside as a girl with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Nice Mom Aphrodite. When Odysseus involves recruit the “prince” Achilles for a battle towards the Hittites, she prepares to die relatively than battle as a person. Nevertheless, her divine mom, Athena, intervenes, reworking her physique into the girl’s physique she at all times longed for, and guarantees her every little thing: glory, energy, fame, victory in battle, and, most significantly, a toddler born of her personal physique. Reunited together with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his sensible spouse, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles units out to battle with a vengeance.
However the gods—a dysfunctional household of abusive immortals which have glutted on human sacrifices for hundreds of years—have woven historic schemes extra blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can think about. On the middle of all of it is the merciless, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and vacancy. In love together with her newfound nemesis, Helen units out to destroy every little thing and everybody Achilles cherishes, in search of a battle to the dying.
An revolutionary spin on a well-known story, that is the Trojan Battle in contrast to something ever instructed, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the folks she chooses to battle…and chooses to belief.
From the Writer
Writer : William Morrow (June 7, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063161184
ISBN-13 : 978-0063161184
Merchandise Weight : 3.53 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1.41 x 9 inches
