Exploring conflicts surrounding the mistreatment of women, power imbalances, and sexual violence, Underwood adroitly utilizes the inspiration material's foundation to deliver an expansive world plagued by monsters both mythical and mortal. Floral language, while occasionally dampening character development, excels at setting an absorbing scene. Leto, Mathias, and Melantho's sweeping alternating perspectives drive this urgent-feeling romantic adventure. As the three teens' lives intertwine, amorous feelings are forged amid harrowing action and vengeful pursuits. To break the curse, Leto must kill teenage Prince Mathias of Ithaca, a descendant of Odysseus who is haunted by the annual tradition. When 17-year-old orphan Leto is sentenced to death, unexplained happenings lead to her waking on the island of Pandou, where she meets Melantho, who had previously been sacrificed only to similarly awaken on the island, cursed to command the tides. To avoid societal destruction, the citizens of a cursed Ithaca annually sacrifice 12 teenage girls to Poseidon. Centuries after the events of The Odyssey, all is not well on the island of Ithaca. LIES WE SING TO THE SEA is a furiously stunning story of staring down the consequences of love that is chosen, and daring to leap in anyways. Lies We Sing to the Sea is a YA fantasy that takes The Odyssey and Greek mythology as a jumping-off point to tell a new tale about love and sacrifice. Underwood artfully ties Homeric tropes into the plot of this alluring, if unevenly paced, ancient Greek retelling. If you ever read Circe and thought, 'Man, all this needs is a bunch of unhinged sapphics' this book is for you.
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