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This takes the Greek myth of Cassandra, a woman cursed to utter true prophesies but never be believed & retells it during the 1940s atomic arms race. Mildred experiences visions of horrific death & destruction, & as they grow, her friends & colleagues increasingly believe that she's going crazy. This was a darker psychological read & there are scenes that made me both cringe & be furious. While I didn't necessarily love this, it is haunting.

Mildred decides to escape from her domineering family by becoming a secretary at Hanford, a secretive military facility. But she has visions, resulting in bizarre behavior and eventually descent into darkness. I liked the setting and some of it was very well written, but the visions didn‘t work for me and it was just too weird, especially at the end.

The Cassandra myth of Greek legend but set at the nuclear plant in Hanford that developed the atomic bomb. I knew to expect a tragedy but still was taken aback several times. I liked unsentimental Mildred as a main character.

I started out really loving this book about a girl who gets visions, leaves home, and goes to work for the US War effort during wwii. But it took a turn toward the end which I didn‘t think worked?

Retelling of the Cassandra myth, a prophetess whom no one believes. Set in 1940s Hanford WA, Mildred, as Cassandra, is a secratary to a physicist working on the atomic bomb. She is tormented by visions of the bomb on the Japanese.

This is a Dark, Dark story and there is no happy ending, so read at your own risk. Also I know nothing about the mythology so can't comment on the accuracy or interpretation.

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Magnificent and dark and gutting in its horrificness. Incredibly well written, but very hard to read.

An entertaining retelling of the classic myth!
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I enjoyed this retelling quite a bit. I loved the ways the author modernized the story, part historical fiction part fantasy. It was pretty powerful and a lot of great symbolism is used. I really liked the time period this is set in too. How the author showed the way women were treated at this time.
The writing is quite good and you can tell this was well researched.
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The Cassandra by Sharma Shields is a retelling of the classic Cassandra myth, set at the Hanford nuclear facility during World War II. Full disclosure, I once again missed that it was a myth retelling until after I read it.

Mildred gets a job at Hanford as a secretary, and happily leaves home in Omak, Washington, where she had been her mother's caregiver. There is also a sense she tried killing her mother, but this isn't explained at first. ⬇️

Another interesting addition to Mt. TBR. My early year TBR is full of World War II historical fiction of all kinds.

This novel is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cassandra. In this novel, the Cassandra is Milly, a secretary on the Manhattan Project during WWII. Milly's backstory, violent seizure/sightings and work on the secretive campus developing atomic weapons all cast a very dark pallor over the retelling. the story never really got off the ground and I didn't find Milly a likable, sympathetic or compelling character.
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