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Medusa by Paradise Lost

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Most people will know Medusa as the Gorgon from Greek mythology; she is the infamous beast with...

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Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices

Claude Lecouteux

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Our pagan ancestors knew that every forest has brownies and fairies, every spring its lady, and...

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**Nominated for Gamer's Voice Award at SXSW** **Nominated for Best Upcoming Game at IMGA**...

Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend

Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington

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Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible,...

The Sea in the Greek Imagination

Marie-Claire Beaulieu

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The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life...

ClareR (5721 KP) rated The Harpy in Books

Oct 14, 2020

The Harpy

Megan Hunter | 2020 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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This frankly stunning book, begins like many women’s normal, everyday evenings: getting the children ready for bed on their own, waiting for their husband to get in from their commute.

Lucy enjoys her alone time think, and enjoys the time she spends with her children. She works from home since having had the children. She had a good job, had even started to study for a PhD at one point, and she appears to be happy with her life as it is. Until an unexpected phone call one evening. Jake, her husband, is late home from work, and the stranger on the phone tells Lucy that her husband is having an affair with his wife. Lucy is stunned. Jake is full of remorse when she tells him, and he tells her that she can punish him three times - as long as they stay together.

This book looks at how punishment skirts very closely to revenge, and the effect that it can have on your own sanity. It uses mythology and the myth of the Harpy, to exact that revenge. As time progresses and Lucy becomes more embroiled in her Harpy-like acts of revenge, there are excerpts that seem to come from a Harpy’s point of view. I liked these parts. They seemed to revel in the feelings of vengeance, something that all ‘nice’ girls are taught not to do. Instead of turning the other cheek, Lucy goes for full-on retribution.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. It’s a short, totally absorbing read, and is the second book I’ve read and enjoyed by Megan Hunter. I’m looking forward to whatever comes next!