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I enjoyed this treacherous tale for the most part, but the end was questionable. It just…… ended…..unless I missed something. I needed something more.

The narration is impeccable.

Why was the setting nearly exclusively in one bed chamber or another? 😜 Unless chambers were the equivalent of apartments today.

The writing won‘t matter when Juliet Stevenson is one of the narrators. 😃

"I have been acquainted with the smell of death."

Colm Tóibín's re-telling of the events from the first two plays of “The Oresteia“.

The story is stripped down to its essentials of characters and events. If you didn't know the story in advance, there is nothing really to suggest that we are in Bronze Age Greece rather than any other society before the invention of firearms. This made it curiously uninvolving emotionally for the most part and yet completely compelling.

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Clytemnestra is a great debut! Huntress. Warrior. Mother. Murderess. Queen. All one woman. I haven't read any Greek Mythology since college, but I recognized all the names.

Published May 2, 2023

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