Haunted by the memories of a life before everything was stolen from her, she has no choice but to make peace with her present: Medusa the Monster. With each day affection grows on both sides, with Perseus declaring that he thinks he loves Medusa, Medusa realizes that she feels the same. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. I had read the author's work previously and was intrigued as to how she would handle a Greek myth re-telling. It broaches some mature topics but never goes in to it so the audience is definitely YA or slightly younger. Burton allows us to see and to believe that we contain multitudes, and that we can be the hero of our own story.One that made me think was the message to not over promise, because Medusa had promised many things that she did not have the power to control, and in doing so entrapped herself and sealed her own destiny. i found the illustrations to be extremely gorgeous and i loved seeing medusa's myth from a more feminist perspective. It was published by Picador in the UK and Holland in July 2014, and the USA in August 2014, with other translations to follow.

Cursed by the Goddess Athena and transformed into a Gorgon with snakes in place of her once beautiful hair, the once beautiful Medusa now lives on a deserted island with her sisters, Stheno and Euryale,and her dog Argentus. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. The writing is stunning, as one might expect with Jessie Burton, and the story feels searingly, heartbreakingly relevant for the world we live in .Where Burton brings life to the characters with her words, Olivia Lomenech Gill's brushstrokes do just as perfect a job.

The "message" of the story is quite repetitive also and it felt as though paragraphs were being recycled. i’m just really having a hard time wrapping my head around what part of this was supposed to be something new or interesting.View image in fullscreen Chris Ofili’s The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Charlotte Higgins’s Greek Myths: A New Retelling.

I’m sure this format is one that would entice younger readers to read (whether mythology or other stories). Then again, what if this is a beautiful youth who offers word of outside, news, stories of the gods and then of his mother and Athena… Furthermore, what if she trusts him so that she might risk everything? And I will whisper in the water that one must never fear the raised shield, the reflection caught in an office window, or the mirror in a bathroom. One day a young man lands on the island as if blown off course, but armed with his sword, shield and winged sandals all kept covered on his boat.Bloomsbury)- hardback Medusa has found safety in the secluded island to which she’s been banished by Athena.