Even before they were transformed into Gorgons, Medusa and her sisters Stheno and Euryale were unique among immortals. Curious about mortals and their lives, Medusa and her sisters entered the human world in search of a place to belong, yet quickly found themselves at the perilous centre of a dangerous Olympian rivalry and learned - too late - that a god's love is a violent one.
Forgotten by history and diminished by poets, the other two Gorgons have never been more than horrifying hags, damned and doomed. But they were sisters first, and their journey from seaborne origins to the outskirts of the Pantheon is a journey that rests, hidden, underneath their scales.
Monsters, but not monstrous, Stheno and Euryale will step into the light for the first time to tell the story of how all three sisters lived and were changed by each other, as they struggle against the inherent conflict between sisterhood and individuality, myth and truth, vengeance, and peace.
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I HATE THE NUMBER three.- PROLOGUE, ENTER STHENO, ALONE
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(@TitanBooks, 12 September 2023, e-galley, 352 pages, copy from publisher via @NetGalley)
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I had a great time reading Medusa's Sisters. I love the Medusa with. I've read and seen numerous versions of the story and even wrote a long essay on Medusa for the final pieces of writing for my OU degree in 2021. I enjoyed this version a lot. Other versions tend to stick of Medusa and her sister's as fantastic creatures linked to myth even though Medusa is mortal. Medusa's Sisters explores the human angle of her story and her sisters, cast aside and forgotten. This is well written and engrossing and every page gripped me.